Increpacion danza residency
Student participant diary - Eleanor Harvey
Tuesday 11 July 2006
Today the Increpación danza dancers came to High Storrs! It was so good! The
dancers were really good and it was really interesting to learn a new style of
dancing. At first I thought we were just warming up and stuff but then I realised
that we were gradually putting together different sections of the dance. The
dancing was quite tricky... especially with all of the different timings and little
hand movements but it was really good.
Wednesday 12 July 2006
Today was so much better! Not that I didn't enjoy yesterday... but today it actually
felt like I was doing an actual dance and also because I already kind of knew
what we were doing so it made it a bit easier! Montse (the dancer) is really
nice... even though she doesn't speak much English we all understood her and were
even talking bits of Spanish back! Well, at least we were trying to! Ha!ha!
Friday 14 July 2006
Today we joined together with City School who had also been working with Increpación
danza for a sharing of what we done over the week. I really enjoyed the sharing
because although we didn't know the dance perfectly it didn't matter because it
was just a showing of what we had learned and how we had picked up this new style
of dancing over the course of the week. The dancers from City school were really
good too and they all looked really professional! But it was fine! I think both
schools did really well and the two dances each school learnt were different which
made it all the more interesting!
All my friends who were in the class said that they had enjoyed the experience
although they had expected the style to be more Flamenco than Contemporary!