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Jul. 10th, 2005 07:30 pmHow can I possyibly justify (to myself) spending 120$ for a bathing suit? Admittedly, it's the first bathing suit I've seen in a long time that I really, really liked. Trouble is, they only had one left, with both pieces the appropriate size for me. I've been looking online, but I can't seem to find the same suit anywhere, so I'm guessing it may be from last season. Perhaps I'll go back for it... >_< This after I just spent a whole bunch of money on clothes yesterday. I'm still working, I don't need to be frugal yet, really!
Last night I saw a dance/fashion show and it struck me for the first time how critical I am of dance in general. Now, I'd been warned not to watch with an eye for technique, as there wasn't any, so I'll admit that the choreographies were fun, not to mention done with enthusiasm. But ugh, is it really so hard to point one's feet? The trouble was that if, say, eight girls were on stage, at least one of them had flexed feet (when they obviously should have been pointed), one was way behind the beat and nobody seemed to be looking in the same direction. Two of the girls I dance with were in the troupe and though they haven't been dancing for very long (2 years ballet/tap, 3 years jazz), you could tell they at least knew what they were supposed to be doing.
It wasn't the dancing that mystified me, however, it was the fact that for all the work that had gone into creating and learning the choreography, planning entrances/exits, nobody apparently took the time to teach the models how to walk to fast music. I wasn't expecting a true "model walk", but most of the girls looked like they'd never worn high heels before, or rather had never tried to walk gracefully in heels. They were steady, but except for one girl who looked like a natural and another who was quite a bit shorter and so had to make up for it with exageratedly long strides, but they all had that permanently-bent-knees thing going on. You know when your stride is too long so you can't straighten your knee when you shift your weight and you look like -- I'm not sure what, a two-legged spider? Yeah, it looked like that, i.e. not pretty. They looked okay when they were walking slowly, or posing, at least.
Last night I saw a dance/fashion show and it struck me for the first time how critical I am of dance in general. Now, I'd been warned not to watch with an eye for technique, as there wasn't any, so I'll admit that the choreographies were fun, not to mention done with enthusiasm. But ugh, is it really so hard to point one's feet? The trouble was that if, say, eight girls were on stage, at least one of them had flexed feet (when they obviously should have been pointed), one was way behind the beat and nobody seemed to be looking in the same direction. Two of the girls I dance with were in the troupe and though they haven't been dancing for very long (2 years ballet/tap, 3 years jazz), you could tell they at least knew what they were supposed to be doing.
It wasn't the dancing that mystified me, however, it was the fact that for all the work that had gone into creating and learning the choreography, planning entrances/exits, nobody apparently took the time to teach the models how to walk to fast music. I wasn't expecting a true "model walk", but most of the girls looked like they'd never worn high heels before, or rather had never tried to walk gracefully in heels. They were steady, but except for one girl who looked like a natural and another who was quite a bit shorter and so had to make up for it with exageratedly long strides, but they all had that permanently-bent-knees thing going on. You know when your stride is too long so you can't straighten your knee when you shift your weight and you look like -- I'm not sure what, a two-legged spider? Yeah, it looked like that, i.e. not pretty. They looked okay when they were walking slowly, or posing, at least.
