Beat Kill

The common expression is 'drop beats,' but in waacking we prefer to grab them, flick them, hit them or this week (due to us having entered battle mode) kill them. Honestly, if I were a beat I'd really like it if someone treated me with a little bit of kindness! It's just so satisfying to get a track you know and not miss a single beat, but hit every single one of those little so-and-so's and it is a skill that is vitally important to waacking when we're really trying to show the audience the music as clearly as possible. Of course practising this skill could become a reasonably dry affair ruled over by a militant drill sergeant but at DS we like to have FUN - especially on Thursday nights! Thus taking Diana Ross's 'I'm Coming Out,' and partnering up we honed the ability to smack each beat from here to timbuktu whilst telling a story and not being put off by our 'opponent' - no mean feat! Entertaining as this was, some of the stories we were painting were a little concerning - clearly these reports I keep hearing about the impact of violence on tv have some validity! Oh well, we'll certainly be able to smash it in the next battle we enter  ... but just absolve my feelings of guilt, next week I'm introducing 'beat cuddle' as a new exercise.