I started taking a liturgical dance class at our local dance studio in October. I'm the lone adult taking the class with five teens. I'm not sure what they think of me but they're nice girls. I never really wanted to learn ballet (hip-hop, jazz, modern......okay. Ballet? Uhm, I never considered myself graceful) until our instructor started using a lot of it in class. All those French words! I'm now wanting to learn more. I've asked for a recommendation for a good beginning ballet video as there is no class for this for adults. Julie says I'm doing fine, but for those who know me well, know that I have this perfectionist tendency ;-) . Anyway, I'm also an impatient sort of person when it comes to wanting to learn something new (you know, right now?) so I looked on the internet and found some videos done by a professional ballerina and teacher named Jodie Gates. Guess what? All those French words are getting more familiar :-)
Learn Basic Ballet
Placement and Alignment for Basic Ballet
Ballet Barre Basics
The 5 Basic Ballet Positions
Moving Between Ballet Positions
How to Move Forward in Ballet
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Praise Dance
Our dance team Praise in Action was part of a local festival Ministerium Night last night. The band Unforsaken was playing as well and made room for us on stage. They worked it out for us to dance during their breaks from playing and to give us a break before our next dance. It was a real blessing and we appreciated all that they did. They even announced us before each dance :)
The road to last night was not an easy one. When we were initially asked to do this (February), I was so excited for the opportunity and so were the other dancers. A new dance was found for us to work on in May and then people's schedules, dislikes, fears, and a pregnancy came into play and it was beginning to look like there wouldn't be enough dancers to fulfill our obligation. I was plagued by nightmares, doubts, and fears that made me wonder if the request should have been accepted in the first place. I hadn't been having these kind of struggles with our dancing before, so where was all this coming from?
Looking back on it all now, I believe it was a spiritual attack. The new dance was a dance of spiritual warfare, something new for us. When we take a stand against darkness, it tries to convince us that we are not worthy and will put whatever stumbling blocks in our way that it can. I also believe God allowed it to happen so that I would learn to trust Him even more.
Last night was testimony to perserverence and trusting God. My daughter stepped up and filled a spot in the first dance, two dancers that initially didn't plan on dancing were in the last two dances (we'd done these ones in the past), we received many affirming comments afterwards, and the band leader even joked that one of their members was leaving the band to join our dance team ;)
Note: We did three dances to the songs "Till the Walls Fall" by Martha Munizzi, "Shackles" by Mary Mary, and "Sovereign" by The Parachute Band. (All these dances, and more, are available here.)
The road to last night was not an easy one. When we were initially asked to do this (February), I was so excited for the opportunity and so were the other dancers. A new dance was found for us to work on in May and then people's schedules, dislikes, fears, and a pregnancy came into play and it was beginning to look like there wouldn't be enough dancers to fulfill our obligation. I was plagued by nightmares, doubts, and fears that made me wonder if the request should have been accepted in the first place. I hadn't been having these kind of struggles with our dancing before, so where was all this coming from?
Looking back on it all now, I believe it was a spiritual attack. The new dance was a dance of spiritual warfare, something new for us. When we take a stand against darkness, it tries to convince us that we are not worthy and will put whatever stumbling blocks in our way that it can. I also believe God allowed it to happen so that I would learn to trust Him even more.
Last night was testimony to perserverence and trusting God. My daughter stepped up and filled a spot in the first dance, two dancers that initially didn't plan on dancing were in the last two dances (we'd done these ones in the past), we received many affirming comments afterwards, and the band leader even joked that one of their members was leaving the band to join our dance team ;)
Note: We did three dances to the songs "Till the Walls Fall" by Martha Munizzi, "Shackles" by Mary Mary, and "Sovereign" by The Parachute Band. (All these dances, and more, are available here.)
Sunday, June 8, 2008
My Saturday
Had dance practice in the morning. So glad there was air conditioning! Half the routine learned.........
Lunch, then off to community yard sales.....
Our treasures for the day:
Lunch, then off to community yard sales.....
Our treasures for the day:
- light poncho - $0.25
- fluffy, cuddly doggy purse - $0.75
- large campbells soup mug - $0.75
- Chocolate isn't a vegetable? candy dish - $0.50
- 2 quart pitcher - $0.10
- Captain Underpants books - free
- more books - free
- bright pink slinky - free
- shorts and skort - $1.00
Walking in the hot humid weather sure takes its toll.......
Laundry, dishes...........
Returned library books, got some more. Also 2 movies..........
Bought fruit to make a fruit salad for dinner. We also had coleslaw. I refused to cook and make the house any warmer............
Watched movies.........
Friday, June 6, 2008
Yesterday
Realized I hadn't blogged in a couple of days....
Needed a copy of our dance routine song. My cd burner doesn't work so downloading music to copy onto cd's is not a possibility. You'd think since I owned the song I could transport it to another computer that has a cd-burner? HAH!
No one showed for dance practice last night. I remember specifically being told that Thursdays were a night she could be there, hhmmm ......
Instead, went in and prayed for the upcoming VBS our church and another church is putting on in July. I'm going to be the resident photographer and video presentation person. We have a booth at a local festival to raise money for the VBS becasue we are believing for a lot of kids........
Forgot to buy garbage bags the first time, forgot my debit card the second time, rode my bike to the store the final time.......
Needed a copy of our dance routine song. My cd burner doesn't work so downloading music to copy onto cd's is not a possibility. You'd think since I owned the song I could transport it to another computer that has a cd-burner? HAH!
No one showed for dance practice last night. I remember specifically being told that Thursdays were a night she could be there, hhmmm ......
Instead, went in and prayed for the upcoming VBS our church and another church is putting on in July. I'm going to be the resident photographer and video presentation person. We have a booth at a local festival to raise money for the VBS becasue we are believing for a lot of kids........
Forgot to buy garbage bags the first time, forgot my debit card the second time, rode my bike to the store the final time.......
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