Graham
/ 17. juni 2010 15:06
Welcome to my first ever Skånes Dansteater blog! My name is Graham Adey and have recently started dancing for Skånes Dansteater.
Yesterday was my first venture out of the wonderful Malmö to a sunny town called Lomma. I had been asked to teach a 2 hour workshop to a group of kids on a summer dance camp!!
I turned up to Lomma in good spirits after seeing all the patriotic Swedish flags flying high above peoples houses. People seemed very happy to see me when I arrived and the kids shocked that the whole class would be in English. Of course it only took them around 1 minute to work out that getting me to say words in Swedish could be very ammusing for them!!
Dance Students sitting waiting looking a little confused as to what they should expect! What is contemporary dance??????
Me (Goofy looking one on the right) explaining that they should not look confused about what contemporary dance is! Only problem is they got more confused as I was talking in English!
Good job you dont need to talk much when your dancing and we got straight to it.
Looks like a ballet class but I promise we were doing contemporary
You see!!! Look at that contemporary pose and these kids pick up super fast!!!
Is he laughing at me or with me?
I threw some difficult stuff at them but these swedish kids just dont give up!
Thats me again and look we are all in time... kinda
aaaaaah my world famous reggae routine. Dancing to Bob Marleys - No More Trouble.
Near the end of class and trying to make them sweat by doing some good old travelling across the floor.
We finished the workshop some creative exercises and this looks like she is asking me a serious question by i'm sure she really asked me why the hell I had a Batman T-Shirt on?
So there we have it my first blog and class for Skånes Dansteater. I had a great time teaching these kids as they were up for having a go at everything always with a smile on their faces! I left Lomma with love
So thanks for reading and look out for my next blog... which could be arabesque of the week!!