Day 12 of 52 Nia dance challenge
Cue the music! I’m working to memorize the hour-long Bloom routine, written by Nia choreographers Christina Mae Wolf, Kellie Chambers, and Rossella Vanti. Today I spent 50 minutes just repeating the first four songs of this routine, using the Nia on Demand video to guide me.
My energy level was low, but my interest in dancing the steps, remembering what came next and listening for the musical cues was high.
The third song is a waltz, “Roots of Levant” by Jimmy Wahlsteen, and it’s interesting how the choreographer’s guidance on hand and arm movements suggesting a figure-eight or infinity shape feels like it fits perfectly into the 3/4 time.
When I had the opportunity to interview Nia founder Debbie Rosas last month for a story in our local paper, she talked about the importance of the movements being integrated with the music, and this just seemed to exemplify that to me to today.
Even though I won’t start working on memorizing the steps to the fifth song until next week, I couldn’t help dancing at least once to Katharine Appleton’s “Rebel Soul “. Woo hoo!
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 