random thoughts – Day 2,305 (Tuesday) – dark dancing

Tuesday brought rain, chill, and dance day. The ride to dance faced a traffic jam within minutes of hitting Route 2. Luckily, the backup was near the exit I had planned to take and I was able to get out of the mess.

Dimly lit dance day.

At our practice hall, there was a sensor of some sort beeping. It was ongoing and regular, like a slow metronome. And there was no electricity. Despite the many windows on three sides of the hall, the cloudy dreary day meant a dimly lit space. 

Someone had our music on their fully charged phone and someone else had a really cool speaker in their dance bag, so we chose to proceed. There were jokes about dancing in the dark.

Most of us know the barre, center work, and choreography by heart or close enough to get through it, but today we learned something new. Specifically, balancing is a bit harder in the semi-dark. The little speaker, which was actually a shower speaker, had great volume and colored LED lights and now we all want one. There is one in my Amazon cart right now.

We think Mrs. Rice would have been proud of us for not wimping out due to a tiny obstacle like the absence of electricity and the presence of a shrill beep. If it hadn’t been raining, we might have even danced outside under the pavilion, just like a core cluster of the group did throughout the pandemic (even in the winter). We are hardy stock.