Dance! - The Road to Heavies: lesson 40, October 3, 2014. Doubts and a surprise
The teacher has some information about the upcoming Feis. She shares that info with me as well, allthough I'm still not sure whether I should say yes or no.
I get pushed in the direction of 'yes' when I have to dance the Single Jig and the teacher urges me to stop halfway through. Completely surprised, I take a few more steps, when she again tells me to stop.
A little bit startled I go over the steps in my head, to find out what I did wrong. No, I didn't make a mistake, the steps were right and in the right order.
32 bars. That's it.
Then I hear something that will sure make going to a Feis an easier choice. I just danced everything I need to do at a Feis. All beginners-stuff just takes 32 bars in a competition and the Single Jig only features a lead-around and a sidestep on the right and left. Everything after that doesn't really matter. Well, if I had known that earlier...
Despite that, I'm still in doubt if I should go to a Feis or not, but I still have a month to decide.
Tranquilizers?
When the teacher sees my face and understand I have yet to decide, she mentiones 'chill pills'.
When I ask what she means with that, I hear something that puts things into perspective. Where I already get the pins and needles when I think about the words 'competition' and 'taking part', one of the girls was so nervous in the past that she took tranquilizers to make it through the competitions. Homeopathic stuff, but even so...
Though my nerves aren't that bad that I consider to take tranquilizers, but the other side of the story for me is that it crosses a line for me.
I like Irish dance very much, but it should stay that way. If I have to take something to keep Irish dance 'nice', there's something wrong...