Dance Class Diaries

                                                                                                                                April 27, 2013

          My first class of this year's Summer Funk, I am excited and happy as ever. Joined Bollywood this time because I want to dance to 'Balam Pichkari' or 'Badtameez Dil' would have joined hip-hop (scary) otherwise. There are generally more students in a class during funks so I expected it to be a full class but not all this much. It will be difficult to dance if anymore join. The advantage of a full class is I can merrily stand in the last line corner can dance/cheat away to glory. Somehow stage left corner seems to be my 'Sheldon Spot'. I think of you guys in every class, reasons being different on different days. Today I thought of our 'gundagiri'. a big group of friends has joined this class, they are at least 10 of them. This group apparently joins all funks together. There was a lot of ho-hallah, huggin and 'hi' as they met each other and I was like 'Wow, now I know what we must have made others feel back in Cal'. What with our boisterous selves cracking up at poorest of jokes, calling out to each other from one end of the class to the other. Leave alone students I guess we must intimidated our instructors as well. 

        I was happy to be back to classes after a month but I was feeling lazy as well, I couldn't even get myself to do the little dancing wala workout that we were being made to do. 

        We start our dance. Instructors shows us the step, 'hit left shoulder, hit right shoulder'; we repeat. Instructor shows the next step and all heaven broke loose... 'Balam Pichkari'. I was so happy, bas chalta toh main wahin pe start ho jati but the class waited for the instructors to finishing teaching and when the song was played, I tell you guys I danced like I haven't for a long time. I love the 'Padosan ki Bhabhi' being 'lattoo' part.

     Oh, I forgot to mention passes. I wonder why they were ever created. The moment instructor said being 'x' lines with 'y' people in it, my face contorted into the most pained look possible. Damn!! The good thing that came out today's passes was that I think I may have become a little better. We were doing our most loved 'cross-step' pass and I realised I was kind of doing it in a way you guys do it. I guess joining 3 batches of contemporary back-to-back has yielded some fruit. :D

    Happy times don't last too long they say. 

     When the class ended the instructor asked us for song options, most of us said 'Badtameez Dil' but he was like all classes want to do these two songs, we should do something else. Ouch!!! Nahiiiiiiiiiin!!!! Even a Govinda medley wouldn't entice me to give up dancing to these songs this Summer Funk. I am hoping we will be able to convince him for 'Balam Pichkari'.