It's been a while.....

It's been a while since I had time to blog. The heat has been just too damn outrageous.

The weekend was not a bad one besides the heat. Friday, I went to sofa lounge with bananas to meet up with Mel and company. As we walked up the stairs to the club, I just noticed it was HOT as fuck. I having a drink in that weather was no good, it only made shit hotter. Most of the people there at the club had flyers fanning themselves. We didn't last more than 30-45 minutes at Sofa that night.

Saturday was chill, just vegged out. Tried to just beat the weather. Saturday evening I worked on some choreography. Choreo for PDC as well as for FSSJ.

Woke up Sunday morning and it was still hot. Not as hot as Saturday (yet), but it was still warm. Did the usuals, got ready, headed over to SJ with Bananas to teach FSSJ. Thank god it was at a work out place where there's fans and AC. Before entering the facility, I got to have a taste of how bad it is in San Jose. That is just damned ridiculous hot, like Vegas. I seriously thought my skins was melting or suffering from disease which has burning. After teaching, we headed over to meet up with Josh and Sarah. Awesome times, yet it was still hot. Learned alot about ants (animal planet). Swooped up some clothes and met up with Justin at the wood. After about 10PM, we finally headed out to go swimming.

I was pretty scared to go swimming. It's been years and I wasn't even sure if I remembered how. All in all, I did aight, I had fun, I'd do it again. Most important thing.

Practice yesterday was cool. Jeka showed me her warm ups (since I missed it) and I got to see Sean's choreography for the first time upclose with him doing it. i really like it. It's not what we would normally do, but I think that's the best part. It's the biggest element of surprise for those who have made alot of prejudgements about PDC within it's first year (still ain't made it yet people!). Jeka's choreography gets better every piece, which is a very good thing. Musicality is awesome and choice of moves is fair or above. She has the "loose-hand" style which I call it. It's a cool style, it makes it flow more. My whole take on that style is, if you're goin to have your hands more free, you gotta make up for it with levels and execution/feeling.

Sean's choreography is nice. It reminds me of someone who was jazz/modern trained, as well as trained in hiphop. it has very good levels, character and of course meaning/feeling behind why you are doing moves. I think at times, people get caught up in wanting to do cool moves, when, in actuality, dancing is about expression and interpretation. You don't have to be as technical as you may think. But.... on a professional level, you want to be able to have a great mix of both. You want people to love it, and you want people to love doing it. Most often, the stuff people love to watch, is the stuff that doesn't feel like you're dancing or moving much.

Lately, most of my choreo has been groove and flow. Just making things flow seamlessly together. For my next few pieces, I'm really hoping to break that up. Maybe not have as much of a groove and add some eyecandy for the audience to keep them on their toes.

That's about it for my usual rant. I wanted to make this long since I missed a few days, but I started to just have it coming out like no holdin back.

DiRictor: I'm very proud of PDC. We're on our way, and we're not even a year deep in the game. People are starting to get my style and I am hoping they see that, there's more to learning choreography, but learning how to make your body committ, no matter how far fetched it can seem.

Production: Things have taken a slower pace lately. I am very ok with it. I touched up some music yesterday before practice. No word on Collette's writings, but it should be fresh.

AND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The show I am to be feautured in is looking to be pushed back to next March or April. Which is definately fine by me. I already got what we are to do for BFest (Feb) planned, so this will help with the chaos of creating choreography. Just gotta make it through this year.........