Rueda practice was awesome last week. Thank you, Ofer, for being there and calling some ruedas. You are so good at calling. Please keep coming back. We love it! Upon reflection, about my last post on what I’d like to cover for practice, there is just not enough time to do all that I wanted and I want to respect the structure of our practice, so it seems better to do one move review in our beginners time, one new move in our “new moves” time and we just have fun in our last hour. Maybe after 6:30pm or in last hour (no teaching), we can practice some son ruedas to sharpen our ears and feet to the son beat. Kyra is right, this IS the time to dance “son.” We have so many resources, how can we NOT dance son.

For the beginners circle, I really would like to keep polishing our “dile que no’s (a.k.a DQN)” and “dame’s” without the “back step.” I noticed, as well as other leads, that follows are still doing the back step in our dames and DQN’s. So, lets practice “no back step” and walking forward.

For the new moves section (5:00pm to 5:30pm), Lance had taught a few weeks back the “dos con una” move and we don’t call it enough. It’s a great move ( and simple one) and can be added to tiempo Espana, after enchufla pero no, after llevala pa’pajo (abanico). It is a common one called in the east coast. Let’s practice that one.

In our last hour, I’ll be calling the coca colas at the end of other moves that we practiced last Sunday. Just so everyone knows, I am working on a written grid of four levels of casino/rueda moves, very similar to what the east coast rueda/casino instructors have. I am modeling Julian Mejia’s (from SalsAtlanta) grid. While working on this, we are really at intermediate level when we compare ourselves to the Atlanta and Miami ruedas. I’m bringing the grid they have and will pass it out to folks. I’ll also show you what I’ve been working on the make our SeattleRueda grid. Thanks to Suki, I have her many notes and documents of rueda moves that have been taught in the past and things she has collected over the years. We have so many resources, I feel lucky to share this all with you. See you at practice.

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