So, I am going to surprise a lot of people with this post! Yes, I am taking traditional Javanese dancing classes with all my 28 students that are part of the YES project...
The lady that owns the place is American and she is from Wisconsin. She travelled to Indonesia a long time ago, fell in love with the place and now lives there and knows a lot of the traditional dances, songs, etc. She is very nice!
Anwyays, so I arrived there and there it was... A DOG!!!!! I haven't seen one in a LONG time and was just itching to see one...A golden retriever, aged 9 months and called Lulu. And she sensed I was missing affection from a dog...She wouldn't leave...hehehe! Anyways, I started with the dancing...SUPER interesting but hard to do! We were sweating like mad, and let's just say that jeans aren't recommended!
I was able to bond with the students before I met them on Jan 26th! Obviously we weren't that good because the music is so fast and the time you learn the moves and coordinate your body, you are always behind the teachers...And obviously there is the language gap! Thank god some of the students were my translators!
After the 1.5 hour of dancing and looking like fools, we switched with the other group. We played Kamalan, a traditional type of xylophone! I was like SWEEEEEEEEEET! I did this when I was a kid...It wasn't as easy, but still very manageable!
While we were playing music and the other group (we were divided in 2) danced, we realized that we had a VERY hard dance. There are 2 dances...one for boys and one for girls! Of course the hip shaking one was the girls and I did the boys dance... :( I wanted to shake my bootah too...hehehe!
It wasa wonderful experience and you will be glad to know that I will have about 12 classes in total and that I will perform a show with my fellow students in April...I'll definitely try to get someone to make lotsa pics!!!! So you can see my feminine sode too...I have one you know!!!! ;)
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