Focus, focus, focus

Focus is the theme, technique is the challenge, and fun is the desired result.

After having so many things happening lately for the students, with a performance at MedFest, a performance at Tribal Regale, a performance at Pearls of the East, and a their first performance at Cues & Tattoos this year.  It is time for the lessons learned via these performances to be put into perspective.

Now, it is understood what happens in ATS, why is it structured the way it is, and why it is important to be clear in cues.  Fun is a result of the connections of those dancing but these other things now have more meaning and importance in the dance now.

I feel like I have taken these "new to ATS" baby dancers a long way in a short time, but now it is my responsibility to refine them, make them better at what they have come to love.  To represent not only themselves, but to be able to represent what ATS means in its finest forms.  And of course the ultimate to properly represent the lady(s) that started this whole thing.  That is my most important task at hand to be the guide along the way to get where the students are going and do it properly and proudly.

I am totally thrilled at the level of commitment I have come to see from the students that have come, gone, and come back into the class.  Yes, the come and go thing is the reality check that "life" happens. :)

To see not only the time and effort to get to my class commitment but the level of commitment in the class.

So, babbling aside, what does this mean?

Focus was not an issue but concentration in the specifics within a movement is going to be tweaked, torqued, and adjusted.  The techiques will be drilled and refined to their finest. 

Funny all these rather complex thoughts, formulations, configurations, and procedures that have been finding their course in my head and in actions in the class seemed to have disappeared when putting "pen to paper" in sharing what I have in mind.  Complexities traverse the brain but sharing them seemed to have found the simplest form.

I guess any profoundness that I might have shared will have to wait for now...for the brain has halted all exiting thoughts currently.

The only thing I know this whole process is going to not only guide my students but will refine my own abilities even more.  Win/win.