Young Sundays

 

I'm back after a long absence from the blogging scene with some exciting news............. I taught a Young Sundays workshop! Wow I said it now calm yourselves. But before you rush off to tell all your friends on Facebook how about taking time out from social networking and spend some time with me and the fantastic dancers that turned up to Young Sundays.

Picture this..... A cold Swedish Sunday morning and Peder and I (Graham) preparing the dance house for an action packed workshop event. Both worrying that no body will turn up as they may wake up to realise it is a Sunday after all and should be resting/social networking all day. To our pure astonishment 12 enthusiastic people stroll through the doors ready to dance! CLASS BEGINS..

 

 

Thats me ready to unleash the lion from within to get these people moving.

 

 

 

Moments later you can see pure panic in the dance studio.

 

 

 

I decided to tame the lion and focas on some excellent contemporary dance technique.

 

 

 

Fifth position! Need I say more?

 

 

 

We spent some time trying to move fluidly through the floor and these guys rocked it!

 

 

 

We eventually built up to some fast travelling across the floor......

 

 

 

They got faster and bigger and then......

 

 

 

This happened!! Bra!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Normally people clap at the end of class but we decided to bow very low instead!

 

 

 

OKAY you got me we were stretching in the last image but bowing in this one!

 

 

 

We took a short break and got stuck straight into learning rep from 7 Clues.

 

 

 

They learnt, The Paris Hilton phrase, The Armed and Fabulous Phrase, The Attacking Örjan phrase and The Plant into Sunflower phrase. 

  

 

 

Its lunch time and the dancers are wondering where all the foods gone????

 

 

 

Oh Jesper ate it!!!

 

 

 

Lunch is over and now into learning the duet Small Hour. There are no more picture of learning the duet as I kidnapped the camera man and made him dance with me! Tack Pedersson x

 

After learning rep from the show and the duet I set some creative tasks for the dancers. They all went away to make there own Leap Second and here is some images of these guys hard at work!!

 

 

You see these guys worked so so hard!! I thought I was there to inspire them but they really inspired me! I asked the group if they would like to have a little sharing of work and they loved the idea. We moved into the theatre and showed what we had made couple by couple.

 

 

Quick practice before the world premiere!!

 

 

 

And the dancers in action. (the ones furthest away obviously!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

And heres the video of the dancers performance!

 

All in all it was a truly inspirational day with these exceptionally talented people from Skåne.They motivated me and I hope to be back teaching Young Sundays soon. Thanks to the dancers and thanks for giving up your time to browse through my blog!

 Tack Tack