Dancing at day and night

Call me a masochist: every fibre of my being causes me pain today, but I still really happy, because I took my first dance classes here in St. Petersburg yesterday and my sore muscles keep on reminding me of that.

Russian Standards
The studio only offered Jazz and Modern Dance classes for Beginners, so I was not sure whether that was exactly what I was looking for, but I thought I might just give it a try. It was quite an experience. I don’t know what kind of BEGINNERS the dance classes were meant for, but definitely NOT for dance beginners!!! Maybe Jazz, respectively Modern Dance Beginners with a CLASSICAL background, because it was really challenging.

Jazz class was fun and I was very happy that I understood the “dance vocabulary” at least. The stretching at the end of the class was not only very exhausting, but also surprisingly successful, because all of my muscles were totally warmed up, I managed to the splits on my “bad” side as well. I can do the splits on both sides. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Knots in my body and my mind
I was really excited about Modern Dance, because I love, love, love modern dance. The thing about modern dance is that very often movements are explained and also somehow related to pictures. The choreographer explained quite a lot and I only got bits and pieces of it. She was explaining all kinds of things that your left and right arms and legs should do. I was trying my best to understand. At the same time, I tried to “copy” those movements she was showing us. In the end, I felt that there were knots in both my body and my mind.

Dancing all night long
At night, we went out to Грибоедов club. It was a really cool club and we had a lot of fun. We had to stay out long (respectively come back home early in the morning), because brigdes disconnect over night and so we can’t get to the island on which our dorms are located just like that on the one hand and because we can’t enter the dorms between 1 and 6 am on the other hand. It was really nice to have a coffee and a little chat taking a coffee at Кафе Хаус at 5 in the morning and then go back home by one of the first metros in the morning. We are really curious about discovering even more of St. Petersburg night-life in the upcoming weeks.

(anna)