Ask Me Anything | Ep 35

Today's episode is answering a few of your questions and one of them I don't think I've ever answered before ... 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Hello and welcome back. So today's episode is an Ask Me Anything. So at the time of this episode going out, I am currently in the Isle of White. And this has not been recorded from the Isle of Wight. I have recorded it ahead because if I took my laptop with me, the temptation to do work would be too much. So I have left the laptop behind, but I've got some Ask Me Anything's for you. And if you have got some burning questions that you really would love me to answer, send them in, and you never know, in some point in the future, I will do another Ask Me Anything. So I've only got a few, and that's fine because we don't want to overwhelm with questions. And apologies if you can hear music in the background, the neighbours are being quite noisy. So first question is Do you still do in-person lessons? And the answer is yes. So yes, everything I have been promoting and talking about recently is my movement sessions that happen online, but that doesn't mean that I've completely stopped in person. I still do first dance lessons from the comfort of home, and I still do the theme 10 parties. So yes, I'm still in person, and who knows, maybe at some point there will be a pop-up movement session in person. So yeah, they still happen. Not completely, I can't completely neglect my roots, so no, I am definitely 100% a bit of a hybrid, and I love it. So hope that answers your question. The next one is do you have a favourite song to move to? And in reality, no. If you looked at my music library, there is a mixture, it goes from musicals through to pop through to rock, 80s, 90s, different medleys that I've had to do for hen parties. There is a concoction of music in my library. Do I have a favourite? No, I tend to go based on my mood. So if I'm happy, it's more of an upbeat song. If I'm a bit meh, then it might be a bit slower, but no, I don't really have a favourite because I do, I have such a wide taste in music because of the different things I've had to teach to or dance to growing up. I listen to most things. The only thing I don't really listen to is screamo and kind of really proper, like hardcore rock kind of things. I I I just can't get into it. But generally, I I dance to anything. As long as it's got B, I can soon find a two-step that I can do. I don't have a favourite. But do you have a favourite? I'd love to know if you have a favourite. So let's see, what else have we got?

unknown 3:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

Favourite dance style. Um see it's a tricky one. Or is it? No, I'd say contemporary is probably my favourite. Um, I did a lot of ballet growing up, and if you've listened to one of my earlier episodes, you'll know that ballet actually caused a hip injury. So I'm I'm a bit reluctant now to go and do ballet. I'd love to go and do a class and see how I get on. But I'm a bit scared. I'm a bit scared that I'm gonna undo a what is it now, 2013, that I'm gonna undo a 13-year operation. Touch wood, that shouldn't happen, but I'm just not sure it's worth the risk. So, as much as I'd love to go and do a ballet class, I'm just not convinced that it's the right thing for me. Um, so I tend to go for more contemporary because it's it's less rigid, it's more freeing, very expressive. Again, if you watch any of my videos that I've put out on my socials, particularly my Instagram, um, beyond the pole dance videos, um, there are some dancy ones in there. They're probably more contemporary style. Um, so that would probably be my go-to, as much as I have taught a lot of street dance and kind of pop and stuff, but yeah, if I would if I had a choice, it would probably be contemporary. It's just so there's no rules, and I'm a little bit of a rule breaker, so that would be mine. And then the final question, and this is always this always gets asked, is what got me into dance? And I don't think I've ever actually shared this, so here we go. So I have danced since I was four. I grew up in Milton Keynes, and the school that I went to did dance lessons. So that's kind of where the journey began, that it was part of our everyday curriculum within school. We then moved up to the Midlands, and I paraphrased, because obviously I don't remember. Um, I paraphrase and I asked my mum what about dance lessons? Her not realising that I was actually enjoying it and wanted to do more of it. So we went to the local dance school that was recommended. Shout out to Julie Bromwish Dance Academy. And the rest, as they say, is history. So I walked through those pink walls at five, I left them at 17, I went on to do my dance degree at 18. And yeah, the rest is history because then from uni, I then did my teaching degree, and then I've built a kind of building a career around dance, but that's where it all started, and like I said, I don't actually think I've ever shared that. That yeah, it came from school, we moved, and I was like, well, hang on, what about dance? And there was a point when I was doing ballet tap jazz, I was doing Irish, I was doing ballroom, I was doing it all and all the shows, and obviously something had to give. So the Irish stopped quite quick. Um, I was too light on my feet, I couldn't get enough lift. Um, so I I did quite struggle with the Irish dancing, even though Irish is in my roots. Um, I am half Irish. My mum was born in Dublin, um, and well we've still got family over there, so yeah. Irish is in my blood, but I really struggled with it. Uh ballroom, my partner wasn't brilliant. Um, so something I had to give. So they stopped and I continued with the ballet tap, jazz contemporary commercial, the shenanigans. Um and yeah, I left that dance call at 17 and then went to uni at 18. And have followed from there. So This is why I say that if I was to have a walk-on song, or if there was a song to describe your life, it would 100% be thank you for the music from Abba. And I think I I said this in a in a talk that I did before Christmas, that I was singing before I could talk. And I was 100% dancing before I could walk. Um growing up, I was quite often seen dancing around the supermarket aisles, probably because I'd come from rehearsal. Mum needed to pick up a few bits, so I'm c continuing the choreography that had been done that night. Um, my dad made the fatal mistake of giving me a wooden floor in my bedroom, and my bedroom was above the kitchen. So I'd often be told, Will you stand still? Uh don't give a dancer a wooden floor, or a tiled floor, or anything that makes a sound. Um So yeah, I started at four. And at 32, I'm still kind of going. So there are any short and sweet questions, but they're kind of some of the popular ones that had kept coming through. So I was like, right, everyone keeps asking these, so let's ask, let's answer them. But if you have a burning question, let me know and maybe I'll do another Ask Me Anything in uh in a future episode. So I hope you're enjoying the weather, whatever it's doing where you are. And I'll see you next week.