A Song AND Dance

Looks like there's no escape.

I recently signed up for musical theatre school with a friend, of which today was the 1st class. My initial thought was that the singing part would be the 1st half of the course, by which I signed up for only 5 classes first, just to look see, hoping to skip the dancing part. I was wrong. It turns out each lesson will entail both singing and dancing so there's no way I can run from learning to dance!

I'm a clumsy soul, and rather poor in hand-foot coordination, hence I cannot do aerobics much, not to mention dancing. I'll probably trip over my limbs sooner or later. My last recollection of more "serious" dancing was in primary school when I had to put up some dance item for some event (my form teacher taught dancing in school), Ok, maybe mass dance in JC and my short attempt to learn waltz can count too (dropped out at the end). One thing too is that I can never remember the full sequence of steps.

But I must say the class was quite fun/interesting as we sang "Ascot Gavotte" from My Fair Lady (at the race), and danced to "One" from Chorus Line. Think I'll probably be able to lose some weight judging from the workout from the dancing, plus not having proper dinner (am actually still feeling hungry but didn't want to eat too much just now after lesson). Some other interesting parts of the course include a brief history of musical theatre, where we watched some videos and I learnt about black-out acting for musicals, which was a result of social divide (think I ever heard of the term before, but didn't really know what it was about).

Well, look forward to next week!