Feel The Beat

Sophie-Contemporary AND Jazz

AUTHORS NOTE:

Hey guys, just letting you know my dance times. ONLY next Tuesday I will be trying out lyrical, and at Thursday at 6:40-7:30 I will be doing contemporary, and at 7:30 till 8:30 also on Thursday I have jazz. Thanks for all the reads and keep commenting suggestions and opinions!! WARNING THIS IS A SUPER SUPER LONG CHAPTER

Thursday 9th February

I arrive early, like always. I curl up on one of the armchairs and text my friend. About 10 minutes later another girl from my jazz class which starts at 7:30, arrives. I talk to her and she is doing hip hop before jazz. She says that her hip hop is at the same time as my contemporary, and also that the other girls from jazz who did contemporary last week have chosen to stick with lyrical. I'm sorta nervous now, because there was only a few other people apart from them at contemporary last week. Then a girl from my old school, I sorta know her quite well, but she is a year younger, arrives. 'Is the contemporary class next' she asks me. 'Yep' I say. She randomly decides to go downstairs for some reason. With ten minutes left till class a group of girls that are probably 13 arrive for contemporary too, and I feel much better because at least I was here last week and i know some stuff already. Our teacher Hannah has just finished teaching the jazz class, so we go into the studio for contemporary. We put our stuff on the shelf, and go into the middle for a warmup. About 30 seconds in, Glenys(the studio owner who is like 50 and sometimes wears studded hot pink turn shoes around, and is apparently really scary according to Hannah(dance teacher) because Glenys is her teacher for all her classes) walks into the studio with Caitlin( girl from my old school remember?) and Caitlin joins in. I feel sorta bad because I should have made sure ahe got to class. We do a warm up which is good and then start on a routine. It is quite hard, because contemporary has to be flowy, and all the moves connected, unlike jazz. We then move onto an easy routine from the corner, I find it quite hard but after a few goes with the whole group I have got it. Unfortunately some of the younger girls find it really hard but I'm happy that that's not me. I partner up with Caitlin, I know she's pretty good because she has danced for a few years(but at a different studio). We do the moves almost perfectly and get a smile from Hannah. After that we do a warm down, and then everyone goes. I have jazz in this studio afterwards so I just stay in there and put on my jazz shoes. Hannah asks me if I liked contemporary and I say I did, and she tells me it's quite different to jazz, very flowy and I agree. I don't know if I should leave because it's just me and Hannah and she is on her phone playing music so I pretend/drink my water, and I almost empty the whole bottle, and I have literally been in here for like 5 minutes awkwardly, so I leave my stuff there and go out into the waiting room, and stand and talk to another girl called Kate, because the rest of our jazz class is like one big group of friends who are 16, then us, so we talk quite a lot. Then we all go back into the studio, and do our warm up for jazz with Hannah. When we are warming up I feel a muscular pain in the back of my left hamstring. We are alomost at the end of the warm up so I continue. We do a few excersises from the corner, and I am pumped and ready to go from doing contemporary, so I do really well. We learn a new kick combination also from the corner. Luckily only one of the kicks involves my left leg, so for that one I just point my toe. I find it quite easy to pick up, But we have to do a backwards kick where we swing our leg up behind us, but I don't think any of us loon good while we do that. There is a new girl this week, also part of the 16 year old group. They are all nice, but I do t partner with them or anything, but we talk sometimes. We then go over to the barre, and do plies. I am so happy that I took ballet for 3 years when I was younger, because I could remember all the positions and how to plié, even tho I SUCKED at it when I was little. We just work on the left side, so when it comes to the part we lit our leg on the barre and stretch, I just point my toe on the ground. Hannah walks past and doesn't even notice😂😂 she does tell us that she's a bit off because she has to teach 3 classes in a row and she's sick, so that might be why. We do a warm down, and when I don't stretch my left leg she finally notices, and asks if I'm alright. 'I think I might have pulled a muscle I say'. 'Ok just take ur easy she replies. While they are doing stretches that I can't do, I just do my own ones that involve my right leg, and Hannah smiles at me. After class I am left with Hannah in the studio putting my converse on, and when I have done she shows me some stretches I can do to get my hamstring right again. 'Thanks' I say, then walk down the stairs and out of the building.