The Birthday Waack

One friend of DS who definitely knows that life is always better when you know how to werk it, is @EleanorOfficial and Monday, being her birthday, she decided to come and share some of her fierceness and freshness with us. This proves two things (prove being used loosely of course as in the real scientific method nothing can ever be officially proven):

1. DS is clearly THE place to be all the time
2. We never turn down the chance to waack, especially when in training for Waack Date the 4th and @EleanorOfficial always brings something new (even if it's impossible, it's new). 

Starting with a quick funky warm-up we got right into it unpicking four types of footwork (must resist the urge to substitute werk for every use of the word work ... so difficult .... is becoming a Pavlovian response):

1. Digs
2. Step and Cross
3. Shimmy
4. Elvis Presley

Breaking the foundations down this way helped us figure out how to get from A to B in a freestyle whilst still looking fabulous and without falling over (we hope, at the very least 85% of the time). The problem is, that Elvis is also known as 'Elvis Pelvis' and so once again those of us who struggle to identify the exact location of our hips (seriously I am starting a petition to get it included in the lyrics of heads, shoulders, knees and toes before it becomes a national crisis) were a little challenged - but perhaps not as challenged as we were by the step and cross also known as the step and i-can't-work-out-which-foot-i'm-supposed-to-be-on-stumble. Never mind @EleanorOfficial's birthday-fuelled energy at least made it compelling to keep trying and we were soon digging and stepping and shimmying down the studio in a way DS only can. 

Following this, just to add to further confusion on the order of anatomy proposed by the song heads, shoulders, knees and toes, we went from feet to arms. 

It's always great to get inspiration from other waackers/teachers for new arm combinations as, especially when your limbs do what you want them to as infrequently as mine do, it is easy to become repetitive. @MissEleanor did not disappoint, bringing some FRESH new combos to the floor.

 The ability to carry them off whilst looking as if it's as easy as walking must, however, rely on the automated-neuron pathway as you certainly fry your brain (or at the very least in the words of Caitlin 'do yourself a mischief' by punching yourself repeatedly in the head (unintentionally), slapping yourself on the thigh (intentionally) or poking your eye out (unintentionally @Katymillslondon)) in the process of trying to master them. Not that this means you can't be fierce when throwing your arms around your head in multiple different directions whilst your feet do something entirely different, as @EleanorOfficial demonstrated, it just means that you look confierced (see DS Dictionary credit @Trixiecantswim) all the time. 

This all combined to mean that by the end of class we felt challenged fo sho but that the eventual outcomes were obtainable. Shame we thanked her with our abysmal singing - oh well at least there was cake!!! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!