#contrashock

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Dana got a great video of me contra dancing this Sunday at Contrashock!

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Friday and Saturday was Contrashock.  The bands were good of course, and I got to dance with half The Ripples(one of the bands).  My should/neck still been hurting though so i didn’t dance nearly as much as I’d have liked.  There was still good dances with people I don’t see that often though.   An old lady I don’t really know asked me to dance and I asked if she minded dancing both roles(partly because I would kinda prefer to do that always and partly because I didn’t want to do the Lark* for a whole dance with my right shoulder hurting) and she said yes, in fact she said that was why she asked. Apparently last time we danced I got her to dance both roles and that was the first time it work for her. She had tried before but it didn’t go well but I was able to make it work so I’m really proud of that. *perhaps I should make a post to explain what I mean by that so I can just link it, but i’m not going to bother right now so you can just ask if you don’t understand.

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Contrashock!

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ok i’m going to try to recap all the dances I’ve been to since I last posted about them.

8/19/17: was  Swingin' Tern. not so good, I got bored and left early(see previous post). Star Left was there though so i got to see her, and it was free, and it was a nice drive i guess. 8/20/17: Melting Pot. the problem with doing this is going back I don’t always remember to well. i think it stared not so so good and improved after I danced with lila. some people i wanted to be there weren’t but still had good dances n stuff. 8/23/17: Gotham City Blues i left my phone at the bar and didn’t realize until i got home. went back to get it and didn’t get back until after 3am so I decided not to go to work in the morning with that little sleep and bought tickets to Massachusetts for NEUC instead. 8/24/17-8/28/17: i went to NEUC instead of staying home and going to dances. I meant to go to the Concord dance while there but didn’t. the dance at NEUC doesn’t really count but I did dance with Rhianon and she did a cool dance choreography during the talent show.  Also danced with quill a bit while staying at the house before taking the bus home. 8/30/17: Gotham City blues at different location. Léah’s back so they were there. it was really hot in that room so i got a lemonade. there was a bunch new people who looked like good dancers that I didn’t get to dance with :(   I missed Dawn Dance because getting there was hard. then next dance was: 9/6/17: Gotham City Blues. It was very small(maybe because it was raining so much outside). That made the problem with the speakers less noticeable because they didn’t have to be turn up to be heard over lots of people. the building inspectors came so we had to pretend to not be dancers until they left because the Back Room doesn’t have a cabaret license. but it was still fun, i got to dance with most of the people there and didn’t leave early because anna said she had friends coming and I got to dance with them and they were fun to dance with. 9/8/17: Village Contra. I hadn't contra danced in almost three weeks at this point so i was glad to be back. Phoebe’s back, though I didn’t to dance with her. I was feeling tired so i went to the dinner instead of blues or Lip Service so I get to bed earlier. 9/9/17 afternoon:  Fusion Dancing in the Park.  Matt(from boston) showed up(Anna who I met that Wednesday at blues had sent him our way) and we wandered around looking for the dancers. Léah found us and then we found the dancers. Lots of fun dancing with lots of really good dancers.  Tara showed up, i haven’t danced with her in months so that was good. 9/9/17 evening: CDNY. After dancing in the park I got some food and went to help setup for contra. there was an hour of advanced dances that was great. after the lesson and the regular contras started during the second dance my left should/arm started really hurting and I sat out the rest of the dance because dancing made it hurt too much :( still didn’t get a dance with Phoebe because of that. 9/12/17: English country dancing. I might not have gone if i wasn’t on sound but it was alright. 9/13/17: GCB. much bigger crowd. I got to dance with most of the people I wanted to and it was good. 9/14/17: mt airy contra in philly. since I didn’t have work I decided to go and it was bad. I couldn’t find a partner during the second dance and spent the next hour kinda hiding being my phone looking at the internet. Then went to the car texted Gaby(she confirmed she wasn’t going to show up late but i could look forward to dancing with her at contrashock next weekend.) and Kiska(made plans to see her tomorrow afternoon.). With so many of the people I like having moved away or not going consistently I don’t think I should go to philly just cause I feel like it anymore. Maybe with big bands more people I know will be likely to show up but just going by myself on a random night isn’t a good idea(see also previous post). 9/15/17: Brooklyn contra was pretty good. finally got to dance with Phoebe and Jagmeet too. but towards the end of the dance my shoulder started to hurt again(this time on the right) so missed the last couple of dances and didn’t go to blues after. 9/16/17: CDNY. I might have skipped contra cause my should but I was on sound so I had to go help setup. ended up only dancing two dances plus a waltz.

that’s this blog all caught up i think. Any questions, ask so I can talk more about dancing or whatever