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I have discovered what to write when they send you those memes and ask you, "If you could relive your life, what is the one thing you would do?"
My answer: LEARN HOW TO ICE SKATE!
The only thing that has come out of my being sick this week is a renewed fascination for the art of ice dance. I wish I could dance the samba or the cha-cha on ice! How do you do that without falling off your skates? (Of course, there were plenty of times when the dancers did fall off their skates and I, along with the rest of the world, winced in pain for them). I like it when they do the twizzles--these pirouette-like turns that are a lot harder to do than pirouettes. It looks amazing when the guy and the girl do them with perfect synchronicity, in time with the music. Like pretty little tops.
The costumes are worth taking a look at as well. Some of them are just garish, bright pink matched with black on both guy and girl, but some are nice, like the American girl's red costume with a floucy skirt. And after three days of watching you get the hang of telling which couples are good and which are not so good.
It's obvious that the better couples are the ones with more 'give'--the ones that are less guarded, more willing to take risks with their dancing and to be vulnerable. Sometimes this pays off. Other times, things may go wrong--the Canadian couple did this stunning lift with the girl wrapping her arms around the guy's arm and the guy only holding her knee in place. The routine had been fantastic, and it didn't hurt that the costume was really pretty (white with sequins, I think. I don't think the judges take the costume's asthetics into account but I do), so I thought they'd be one of the top few. That is, until she fell during the precarious lift on her hip and had to be helped off the ice by her partner.
But what I was trying to say anyway is that it's more entertaining when you give. It doesn't just apply to ice dance, because I know when I dance there's a difference when I give and when I don't. When I'm sleepy and can't be bothered I just go through the motions and wait for the class to be over. But other times, when I'm awake and not feeling sian and I really put everything into my dancing, things seem so much better and the world seems like a better place.
It's so funny, you need to put in effort to feel better about things and I guess that's the reason why it's so much easier to be depressed and angsty--it's inertia, you don't give much.
jac was here with you
2/23/2006 06:03:00 pm
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