Today, I went for Ryan's Lyrical Hip Hop open class for the first time. Since I haven't attended any open classes for close to 2 weeks, I decided to head over to OSchool and join Ryan's class in the spur of the moment. My body was itching to learn something new. But I actually got more than what I bargained for.
He used the song "Told You So" from Jesse McCartney's newest album for the open class. After warming up for 20 minutes (Ryan has a reputation of conducting very long warm ups. When he took over Daniel's class the other time, he spent 40 minutes on warm ups), he started teaching us the choreo.
Never in my life I learnt such a hard choreo. I attended Ann Tan's lyrical hip hop class before and I was barely able to follow her speedy choreo; but Ryan's choreo made Ann Tan's classes seem like a mass dance. Ryan likes to fill a beat interval with a lot of moves. The moves are often fast, subtle and hard to be "clean" when first learnt. And the choreo demands good control of the execution--you must be able to be hard when needed and soft at times, which is charateristic of lyrical hip hop.
Naturally, with such a hard choreo, I made myself looked like a sticking sore thumb in the class. I didn't have much trouble with the first few 8-beats, but everything started to crumble when nearing the 5th 8-beat. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that he thought the moves damn fast. He covered like 4 or 5 8-beats within 40 minutes. The best part is that the stretched the lesson to 1 and a half hours. I counted that he taught like 7 or 8 8-beats within 1 hour and 10 minutes. Totally crazy and tiring. It made Daniel's Recital practice looked like child's play.
I saw quite a few of my Recital mates in Ryan's class. Quite surprising. And also some familiar faces, like HR's Melvin. Joey and Miss Chen (which is my PE teacher). Hui Xian was there too because she attended the earlier Reggae course. Thanks for waiting for 1 and a half hours BTW!
Went to have Subway with Hui Xian after class. Actually, I kinda miss my dancemates since I haven't seen some of them for weeks already. Can't wait to have another gathering with them. Ie-Ching was sms-ing me and telling me how she missed them. Heh. >.< Hui Xian also said the same thing.
So I think I'm definitely going for Ryan's open class again next week and try not to make an ass of myself. I think I shall go to practise his choreo tomorrow.
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