woman down

Well, I suppose it was inevitable, we've had a few injuries along the way, a shoulder, foot, sciatic nerve and now my back decided to give out. :( The strain got to it I imagine, and in the middle of something rather quiet and slow it suddenly seized up. For the remainder of the evening, I managed to dance rather creatively. I was in one choreographed piece as a prop on my back, which actually rather worked quite well. Today, the pain in still very very much there, and I sit here with an iced gel pack at the small of my back faithfully typing out my blog entry. I've been forced to sit out today, which is now starting to depress me a little since Shobana Jeyasingh just arrived and I'll not be able to dance in her classes. Maybe tomorrow, but today I'll at least sit quietly and observe and hope to give some sort of input in some other form. Injuries suck. It's all part and parcel of the profession, though, oh well.

Apart from that, it continues to be an amazing experience. Today I was interviewed by someone from BBC radio doing a piece on the DanceIntense event.

The classes with each choreographer are so different from each other. Hari Krishnan is doing the second body conditioning classes in the morning, and where Natasha's are very physical, he works from the inside out. Very interested excercises in separating body parts and expressing movement through each, tied in with imagination, concentration and the like. I look forward to see how Shobana Jeyasingh teaches her craft.

Hopefully I'll have a more healed back when I write next.