What Do You Love Doing to Relax?

Most of my time is spent dancing, or working as the assistant in my company. Of course it is great to get paid! And every morning, the number one thing I have to do is pack number of things I have to bring along. Water, phones, laptop, external hard disk, CDs and exercise clothes etc & etc.... I had like thousands things to carry as usual in the hurry morning. Many times I forgot to pick up the bag with me and straight drove to work. I used to drive all the way home to pick it up when I really need it. This was always one of my favorite parts lol!!

I’m thinking seriously with the idea of taking a holiday for dancing. Not to do nothing and focus on dancing, exercise for a while. Huh! I am too lazy to work though! I used to do a lot of aerobic dance to powerful music since 1996. All the sports I have ever done (lots), aerobic dance was the only one I truly loved and did just for me. I missed aerobic so much ....like a best friend who had died...

I plan to do a new routine of my yoga warm up & cool down movements in my weekly classes to encourage students to develop strength, flexibility and good body alignment. So I’m thankful that my training in Aerobics/Yoga and I don’t have that struggle. I’ll just need a week to ten days to do a full series of combinations for my Drum Solo/Shimmy Drills, Veil/double veil/Wings. I simply need more belly dance!!

I watched Hadia’s Volume 2 DVDs, I love her rhythm instruction. The Chiftitelli part, she goes straight into teaching combination of moves which focus on accenting the 5-6-7 of the rhythm. Hey...good stuff to draw upon and make my own. I haven have time to go through the rest of her DVDs. Like many dancers, I like to go through the basics with different instructors, in different styles, moods, formats and music.

Ipoh Workshop - Wings & Double Veils Bashing!

The workshop personally for me was a lot of hard work to organise. To support Wendy I drove to Ipoh on Friday morning and I was able to reached there at 10am.
My 3 days trip to Ipoh was over. It could be summed up as one word : "Awesomeness " with wings and double veils bashing!. My 3 hours private session with Samra was Wings of Isis - I learned a really neat arm motion, arm stretch, floor work, and the "peacock walk". I think I understand well enough to practice. I sure wanted to be up on stage with my Goddess Wings! Some day...The double veils workshop personally for me was a lot of hard work to do, I've been having problem with a couple of double veil techniques. Those arms get tired, my head get dizzy, my veils were not totally cooperative while I spinning to get ‘in’ and ‘out’ of them, but I now can separating the veils ending up with one in each hand! Hehe… I'm starting to dig for music to practice this. If I can do this, I can say is WOW! It’s MAGIC. And now I have the tools necessary to start practicing towards that end.
Well, this was my 4th time I attended Samra workshop. This time, I spent a wonderful time with Samra.- a good time to eat together compared to the last time we met in Bali (no time to eat not time to talk) because she was really busy. We share a lot during the break hours and laughed a lot! We had seafood dinner on the 1st day I arrived. Wendy and her parents invited us to eat in the Nyonya Restaurant on the 2^nd night! It was delicious nyonya food. And we never forget the Ipoh famous bean sprouts too!!!! I went to Samra’s room to pay a visit to her costume (I knew she brought her new costume for her next workshop and hafla performance in Hanoi) She showed me how she made her new costume. I think I got my idea for my latest costume now.
A Well good things had to come to an end. Time to say goodbye and. I don’t know when to meet her again. Going to miss her ….but well, I’m not worry, we always communicate on line. And now my focus is to continuously learn everything about belly dance. Goodbye...my dear Samra, sure we will meet again!

Yi…..PPPPPP! !! Oh, what a night! When we came back to rest in the hotel, we were invited by the birthday boy’s parents who were there celebrated their sons 21 years old birthday party. They have invited 400 guests for that night. Samra did her Belly Dance performance withiout putting o her belly dance costume!! The audience loved it, were clapping, cheering, etc. She looked cute in her 1st party costume.

Dance Competition Update - 2

I watched my team’s practice video yesterday. The whole choreograph I did is simple, step turn to the right, step turn to the left, down and up…lacks of tricks. That is not my style to see students dancing going from trick to trick without any transitions that resemble the belly dance. For competition, I put technique and performance at No. 1, not tricks or floor slam, my choreography is the simplicity and emotion that my students can step out on the stage.

Some people love competition. Thus we have so many sports and all dance forms have competition. But some dances are VERY structured, like ballroom that you can only do certain steps, etc. But for Raks Sharki and all forms of Belly Dance it is not only technique, it is also about expression, delivery, BEING the music. It is not about being like dolls repeating steps. So, when in the competition, and let's say that everyone is equal in ability and performance, how would judges judge? So, someone ends in first, some don't place, and still they were all as good. It makes winners and losers when everyone's performance was just as good in level... But a few judges have to decide what they liked or didn't, they are all excellent, they just have different styles. Then, sometimes there is politics, when they know people or a dance studio, etc...

Anybody who participates in belly dance competition understand the painstaking time, effort, and money that goes into creating a competition piece. Whatever the choreography/theme/etc is, it’s hard work no matter what. Hence, let’s put the animosity aside and focus on competitions to come. Anyway, Best of Luck to all dancers and teams.

My Gold Wings

1st time I saw Wing of Isis by Samra during my hafla show in 2006

I took out my Gold Wings of Isis last night. I didnt hang it up since I last used in last year November. Ai yah....I should keep it hanging rather than in the bag when not in use. The bottom part of pleats not really retain their shape.... I hung it up to remove the crinkles. Ah.... These crinkles are not quite noticeable when I spinning and twirling.

It took me about 4 hours of playing with it to find movements that I liked and I was able to choreography a dance routine in the shortest time ever until 2am!! Yeah….yeah…I had booked a private class with Samra to learn Isis Wings on Friday and going to dance through three days. I have just ordered another set of white wings from her … cant wait to see white colour wings of Isis !!!
Props are very expensive and sometime we need different colours and styles. Swords, Isis wings, melaya, zills, veils, canes, etc. all cost me a lot of money. Dancing with props is fun, they make me look great! If you have not yet given them a try, I highly recommend doing so!
Oh yaa… Samra called me when she landed in KLIA, the airline lost her suitcase. And my double veils and wings were kept in the suitcase :-( I pray hard she will get back her suitcase in one or two days time.

Belly Dance Marketing

Why do I love belly dance? So many reasons, so little time….. There is so much involved in becoming a great dance teacher, including networking, marketing, combining business ideas, teaching style, and art ethics...
When talk about marketing, I’m terrible poor at it. Because I hate to spend any time, effort, or money on marketing. In my dance journey, I too tend to “not like” marketing! I would rather keep myself with a low profile and just go forward with the people who really want to get to the heart of things and learn HOW to dance. I am always happy when I do things this way and although my students may not be as many, they are very faithful and they make me very proud.
Marketing activities bring in customers, without them I have no business. This makes marketing the most important activity I can do. After all, customers do not simply show up and throw money at me, right? Without marketing, I have no students to support me or buy my belly dance stuff. Without marketing, I have no class to teach. The thing is that I hate it but I stink at it. Um… huh? That’s because I want to be in business, business in my dancing. I cant do everything just because of love, I need to survive and I need to continue educate myself. And most people are this way now, they may obviously have a great marketing angle as dance has become business and not art now.
At this point, how do you market with others the same thing in your local area? This (marketing) all may sound like a lot of work and it is. Like most things in life, the value of what I work on is only reveled in the time and energy I deliver to it. A wonderful part of this is that not only do the students study with me, but we also learn from each other by sharing experiences and brainstorming.

In the meantime, it might just be best to save me all a big headache and work on my planning rather than thinking how I can sell something and watch my money roll in....

Dance Competition Update -1

I completed my choreography teaching to the group dance competition. I appreciate the girls efforts, commitment and attitude towards practice, no matter what the skill level. I've said many times, smile and look like you're having fun for entire 3 minutes, be proud of yourself and above of all, this isn’t about winning or losing but about doing the best this team can possibly do.
I checked with the organiser about the kids belly dance category, the 2 kids from Penang finally withdraw from competition. This means that there is no category for kids belly dancing event. So my little girl - Grace will put under newcomer category (no age limit). I asked the organizers to consider what a competitive feels like from the perspective of a very young dancer but I never get the feedback from the organiser.
Grace has fallen sick and I don’t want her overdo... Even though I have not finish teaching the choreography routines. I told her parents, we will then practice on next week. She must get enough rest and soon she will be fit to dance again. But her mummy called me this afternoon,Grace is great to do 1 hour. I went out to teach her at 3pm during my working time in my formal dress today....hopefully my boss is not reading my blog hehe...Well Dance!!
We got all our costumes ready and pretty much we are going to wear it on and practice in the studio. Woohoo....

Bollywood Everyday

Since Gulatis Silk Store opened their new branch at 3rd floor lately, I bollywood everyday except my weekend. My office is at the 4th floor, with the door closed, I can still hear bollywood blasting out from Gulatis. No matter how many times I complaint, the music just calmed down a little bit, and after one or two days, they speaker volume went back loud again. I'm getting sick of a mix techno Bollywood noise.
I am not a big fan of Bollywood. I've seen a number of Bollywood films. Some I have loved, some I have hated. I love the singing and dancing and beautiful costumes. And actresses in Bollywood films always look so ethereal.
I finally went to Gulatis and asked if they can turn their music down as it has been loud since this morning. Hmmm...At the same time, I took a chance to look for my costume fabric. I didn’t realized that Gulatis stock up on bales of fabric in silk, satin, linen, crepe, brocade, lycra, tulle and organza and in every conceivable hue. Then there’s the variety in price range. I found out fabric which are like RM173-RM200/metres, it was my sweet red costume idea (I seldom wear red). Then I figured out the total amount of fabric I need is about 6-7 metres. Too expensive!!! Wow....definite will burn a big hole in my pocket. I don’t want to get too extravagant with my costume, I always wish to be COST EFFECTIVE, So that means, decisions will be prompt and primarily based on the budget. So I’m thinking of getting the non-branded one later. Ahah!! yes, will go to Kamdar.

The music still playing loud, my complaint not work!!!!

Talking Too Much..

I was frustrated when teaching the kids dancing class, the kids’ mummies talked too much while they were waiting for the class over. The studio became a good place for gossip among women folk. I ended up turn on the music loudly, kanasia la…….I could hear the whole side conversation without even straining my ears. And all ahh…I hate myself allowed the kids’ mummies hung around in the class. I should follow the rules of studio and shoo them out of the studio.
I am not blaming to all, I can understand the parents wanting to stick around. I asked my sister once, she told me she usually waited outside the studio for her daughter’s ballet class. She would go in the class if the teacher let her in, she told me she might want to know what her daughter is being taught in the class too. My goodness, .another sticky parents…
I remembered when I taught the kids - 3rd choreography, the beginning part of the music was slow rhythm (it only takes 12 seconds), one of the Hero Mummy came in without listen to the whole thing sounded me not to use this music. It was the modern Saidi that the kids love the most because more "hopping". Hah! I ignored her and continue with my teaching. But one thing for sure, whenever they are doing something that is outside their boundaries, I laugh it off!

Learning To Choreograph

I taught a very fun choreography last night and my students goes wow! It was some different moves put together and make it a little complicated. Ahh...... I was impressed by their attention when they practiced over and over again. This group jumping to intermediate level recently, one of them able to repeat a complex 16 counts phrase after seeing me dance only once. That’s cool! She really put in an effort to start with a good foundation in classical technique so she could make a good dance.

After teaching dance for 5 years, I must say learning to choreograph is a skill that takes years of practice, it takes a lot of sacrifice, takes a lot of giving of myself to gain worldly experience and be able to put aside enough time to create and rehearse the dance. Sometimes, all it takes is forcing myself to practice either memorization or improvisation. At times, I got a ‘mental blocked’ when finding ways to work through improvisational. Haha… hopefully I’m not sending into ‘Tanjung_Rambutan’ one day!!!

Don’t worry, I am normal although I am struggle appropriate movement through exploration and improvisation. Over the days I worked on this, to erase my ‘mental block’, I would put my dance aside and allow me to incubate new ideas. I am patience enough, I know the development stages is a trial-and-error process of seeing, experiencing, and learning. Dance dance dance!! It has to be related to the rest of the world. In order to gain a better sense of what makes up a whole dance, I continue to train, find inspiration in other art forms, stay in shape and practice dancing!

Okay well, I am still in the process learning to choreograph, I keep meaning to start a blog how I created my own dance but haven’t yet. I’ll be back with a bunch of reviews, stay here to read on....

What I did these few days...

Well, I’ve been off-line for a couple of days. Had a very cool, very important thing I needed to pay some attention to. No, I didn’t pay attention to my dance practice or do my choreography. Oh dear, been really busy these days. Hardly have any time to even log onto the net. A little preview of what I did these few days....
I searched the fabric for the costume, the turquoise blue for troupe dance seem to require a bit more effort. And for the solo, I don't know where to find the fabric in blue/gold stripes. Let's face it, I feel costuming is a very important part of the overall look and dance, it's the first thing the audience sees. I do try to match the music and dance style when possible. Then the price is an issue, I can’t really expect my student to purchase what is still consider too expensive. I have been to every store in my place here and neighboring states, I still cant find my particular fabric, oh.... No time left! So many things to do, so little time!! I'll probably looks for something quick and nice and comfortable...
No 2. Had a very cool, very important guest visited me. We talked a lot, contemplated a lot, and just generally had a very good time I think.

No. 3, I received a bad news that my cousin’s daughter (Li-Ming) at age 26, just fought lymphoma cancer couple weeks ago. I went to visit her and she is undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Her mood swings are getting unbearable. I know she's under TONS of stress right now and obviously it's been a very hard time for the family. She told me she want to go to belly dancing class after the treatment, I am very happy to see her determined to change her lifestyle. Most lymphomas can be cured. Six months of chemotherapy (roughly) she will get back to normal again. Best of luck to her and wish her get well soon!!.

Kids Activities in May & June

Our kids mummy is trying to organize more belly dance venues in our area, she has organized an evening at the local event. Here are the photos in the past in May & June performance. See pictures here.

Student Attitudes

I was upset when I saw one of my student put up an advertisement taking new intake student to open class. I actually didn’t aware of this advertisement, it was my staff told me about this when she received the flyer delivered to her house.
This student (and yes it is so so soooo annoying and personally she is not really my student anymore) started with me in 2007 and she was hard working and supportive student. I always treat my students as my customers and I offer my best dance knowledge and ‘services’ (classes). Over the years this student grew in ability and asked more and more of me. Which was perfectly fine with me as it kept me on my toes! I was happy with her assisting in my classes to earn some teaching money. We had a great working friend relationship and she was happy with the agreement. I invited her to join me for things like grabbing a cup of coffee/lunch, working out more activities, promotion, new intake class, hafla (parties) & etc. I am completely open heart to share with her because I am interested in maintaining our friendships that will hopefully last a lifetime rather than merely accumulating acquaintances.
We were once close (2 years ago) and recently I noticed she has drifted further apart. For certain class activities, I tried many ways to call or send text messages to her but she never returning my phone calls or apologize for not being in touch. I tired my best to rescue our friendship and feel irritated when we actually met.
This experience hasn’t made me like or dislike her any more or less, but has made me realise that she is not true friend, just acquaintances. But in life and in belly dance community, I do not want to burn the bridge like break up with her, just...don't make the effort since I know it's likely to be wasted effort.
It's just that I think someone was wrong in doing something, there was no excuse for it, and so I don't 'forgive' them, but I move on. Being able to let go of it is healthy. Not always easy, but from my own experiences, definitely worth it!

New & Easy Belly Dance

I started my 1st choreography lesson for Grace yesterday. Learning simple step at the beginner-level should be easy, but a choreography is the point where everything comes together—movement, timing, rhythms—so it can get hairy at times, especially for kid beginners. It’s cool! She really has a natural gift of learning choreography. I don’t have to water my choreography down. I didn’t put much demands or expect her to learn as quickly as others, I gave one or two simple combinations to match her level of dance experience and she can do it.

So Grace will practice. And she will rock the solo. And now I must go rock the office...

I'm Jumping On The iPod Bandwagon!

I start burning our dance routine video we did in the class yesterday. Whew! I am a DVD/CDs factory :). I want to have them done for Thursday's practice so I can give them out and then be done with them. Should be no problem...
Again, I spent a lot of time arranging my albums and everything seemed to go perfectly. It's a thumbs up for me :). I realized that I waste a lot of CDs. I suspect you do the same, right? I don't mind buying CDs, owning a CD collection might become like owning a record collection. I know, there are a lot of the musics that we can download for free. But sometime the music I want to listen still isn't available.
To me, I find it worthwhile to hold onto my CDs. Besides, a CD remains one of the most flexible music storage formats. I ripped it to my computer and then transferring them to my MP4. The MP4 keep me company when I am traveling. Then again, I burn it to CDs and play on my studio or car stereo system. This is just in case I forgot to bring the CDs for teaching class, I have the backup CDs in my car. (I’m not doing the illegal, I pay to host the band, company & etc and I get a backup in my computer).
Needless to say I have wasted a lot of blank CDs and time. Looks like my iPod purchase coming up for my large collection of music. I want to have all my music in the one place. I really want something that I can take with me wherever I go and take EVERYTHING with me. I am jumping on the iPod bandwagon!!!

Spin Spin Spin Belly Dance

I stayed up quite late last night but I did manage to crawl out of bed at 6.30am this morning! I wasn't rushed, and even had time for a long relaxing shower, and I took breakfast - ‘maggie’ (instant noodle) & coffee ‘O’ without worrying if I'd miss to pick up my students (Khai Shin & Carolyn). I reached there on time and saw amazing thing - Yin Shu & Hooi Sean already started practice… Hey! Cheers for the dancing spirit.
This morning class was a bit long, not many of them showed, so there was a lot of space, they get a lot of my attention and it was fun to spin, turn, spin! Then we went for lunch before sending Khai Shin & Carolyn home! The rest was rushing back to school activities so they didn’t joint us!
I was very tired when I got home. I took a long nap. Woohoo… I finally decided to drag myself out of bed despite having an afternoon nap for 2 hours and my girl calling me to wake me up. She told me she cant find the fabric for her costume. Ah…. I’m feeling rather stoned and looked really lost now, I feel like continuing my sleep and never wake up. Oh my goodness..I’m like so dead now…

My Next Workshop - Ipoh

Good Memories Time with Samra in Sept 2006

Samra workshop is on Aug 8 & 9 organize by Dance Vogue Studio - Ipoh (a good friend of mine Wendy Cheah). I definitely go to attend! First thing is I miss Samra sooooooo much and 2nd thing is to SUPPORT Wendy 1st time workshop. 3rd thing is Samra not going to organize the Lotus Dance Retreat in Bali and I gonna miss it! Actually I want to plan a dinner for Samra but she is fully booked for private class. And she got Wings private lesson in K.L right after Ipoh workshop. Samra, Big hugs and smoochie kisses for you!

Wow wow… I think because of competition that make many dancers need some more work for private lesson! It is real excited as get closer to the competition date. It's going to be a fabulous weekend with dancers from all over the place coming to compete and perform. Please keep checking back here and I’ll update the news frequently!

Weekend Workout Tunes

I got up this morning and did some drills with my bellydance yoga DVD - Contemporary Bellydance and Yoga Conditioning by Ariellah. I bought it at Ariellah workshop. It is cool and I like this DVD. It has 2 sets of yoga warm up, short and long and 2 sets of belly dance drills going through basic belly dance techniques – good for practice tribal dance! There are two sections of short choreography for routines workout. I have played but just skimmed through them. I haven't done those yet.

Good thing nobody around the house only the maid, I spent whole morning blasting stereos... wakaka… don’t need to be quiet and tiptoe around when I did my dance fusion workout.

Well, my knees are sore now….I have 2 classes in the morning tomorrow. Hey…Saturday morning class come back again – should be fun! The more I do, the better I get. Dancing Dancing Dancing. This is only for temporary private class.

Oh ya, I gonna pick someone up...

What is Everyone's Favorite Part for Competing?

Last night I brought up the Malaysian Open Dance Fest 09 event in the kids belly dance class. So far I never mention to this group because they are completely brand-new, only 1 of them have had prior latin dance competition experience. I think this sounds impossible especially when they only took belly dance lessons in the past two months. BUT, I got a good news right after I announced this competition event in the class. One of the kid, Grace went home and told her mummy she want to go for the competition. Ah, Well, I am constantly amazed she is keen to challenge herself.
Honestly it took me a while to make a decision on whether I should let her enter the competition or not. Grace is 9, she has entered Latin Novice experienced and she is ballet dancer. I was actually afraid she push herself too hard to do well instead of relaxing....and I'll totally suck at it.
I was chatting with the organizer today. well, initially the organizer didn’t open the kid individual belly dance (age below 12). The organizer will add in the category later if there are many contester sign up, otherwise Grace have to participate under the newcomer division (open) with that music : Ana Yalli Bahebak (I’m sick of listen this music).
Grace had shown a keen interest in belly dance. Seeing the eagerness and the interest she was showing, I called Grace’s Mummy and I took the initiative and I encouraged her - certainly going to let her try. I decided to teach her a new choreography separately at private class (since she wanted the private class on the 1st lesson).
What is everyone's favorite part about competing? I use competitions to spur myself on to achieve my goals in dancing, choreographing and the goal for me is to measure my progress.
I appreciate Grace’s mummy hard work for sending her girl to participating in various dance competitions, getting ready, doing her hair and make up. Cheers for Grace Mummy!

Practice Sessions

Can everyone perfect their arms look EXACTLY the same in a group?

Last week we practiced a new choreography for the group dance competition. It has been a real struggle for me - first selected of music that is interesting to encourages students to have fun with their dancing!

Suddenly, I am concerned about more than their body movements and arms placement. It’s time to polish up themselves and show the world what they know and also take their dance skill to a new level.

When conducting the students practice, an even balance of technique training and practicing choreography is crucial. At first it was frustrating, but I’ve learned to deal with it. I don’t want them to be a dance robots because they are dancers. I hope to see more strong technique since they practiced the series of steps over and over for weeks.

For this, I require a commitment, a large commitment from my students, especially when they are in group competing. Furthermore, it is not just practice and a good dance that will get you to a competition it also costs some money of costume, travel & accommodation.

Some of them were disappointed when forgetting the step, some afraid of anything mistake, afraid anything different, afraid of what others will think…oh dear, but I don't think anyone needed to be sad. My words is – Be positive! you are here to learn and not to win, if you make mistakes, learn from them and move on. And remember, we didn’t learn to run overnight. We'll learn to crawl first, and then walk, before we run.

I hope all my students learn something positive from every situation, pay attention details to the lines, levels and formations and responsible to your spacing. Ham it up, act out a part, listen to the music and let it tell you what to do. MOST IMPORTANTLY, GIVE YORSELF PERMISSION TO DO WELL.

While I'm Dreamy of Me Become Belly Dance Superstar!

Last night I have extra hours class ended at 11pm. So I overnight in one of my student house and I shared the bed with her. Oh la la,.... can you see somebody by how she sleep? Someone took such incriminating pictures while I am dreamy of me become belly dance superstar!
Can you sleep in one position anyway? Doesn’t it boring? Some people move around all night long and never stay in the same place, it seems like it would be stiff an uncomfortable to just lay around in the same position all of the time….or maybe the person gets bitten by bed bugs.

This is just for sharing. Yeap…sharing is caring….=)

Belly Dance Rocks..

These were some photos we took on Belly Dance Jam at Shivz Restaurant in the past weekend.
Big THANKS to Emily who took the pictures which she shared with us. YAH!! We all had a great time with Nigma and realized that we must have Nigma back to teach us more!!

Good Feeling....

This trip was a bit more inspired i.e. spent some time and some $$$ in a different environment too. While waiting my friend to pick me up at KLCC, I managed to bought 2 new thongs and blouses at TopShop, again I pampered myself! When my friend arrived, we walked over to 7atenine a wonderful place to chill out. Then we headed Windmill Subang for oxtail stew, grilled salmon, sizzling lamp chops, yummies (Goes well with the wine!)
Right now I am struggling between my regular day time job, and my Belly Dance classes in a week. On each class I have a different choreography going on. And all will be performed in our 3rd halfa show soon, besides my own solos..... sometimes I think I go crazy with the amount of things I propose myself to do….. but everything will be fine.

My mind doesn’t work 100% at this hour because I ate too much and I drank too much during the weekend LOL! But I am sure that by the time I get to teach my classes this evening I will be feeling Good! That's the way it works - nothing like teaching a belly dance class or rehearsing to feel great again!

Filled with New Knowledge

Huh….finally can sit down to update this blog. I just came home from a workshop at the dance space with Paola Blanton. It was awesome!! She gave tips on how to "captivate" an audience! I loved every second of her teaching style. She is a very knowledgeable instructor and I never stop learning from her.

The workshop attendance was not big, I'm sure it's probably due to people being busy over the weekend. Our class was filled with women of all levels, and each one of us left happy, filled with new knowledge and the joy of dance. I would absolutely take more workshops with her.

After the workshop, we had a dinner with Paola since she is flying off to New York. She is constantly traveling the world and learning new things. Come back soon Paola, for another fun day of dancing!