Sarina's Back And I'm Going To Be Sweaty!

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I started up dance/aerobics classes again with the great Sarina Condello on Friday! I took a session last year at this time and it was sooooo amazing.


Unfortunately any strength and flexibility I may have built up last year is gone and I'm starting from zero again (sigh). The class participants were assembled by Elaine Overholt, singer and vocal coach extraordinaire (she vocal coached Richard Gere, Rene Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones during the filming of the movie musicalChicago). I used to take vocal lessons with Elaine many moons ago, but now my oldest daughter Myrna has that honor.

Anyway, the people in the class are all singers/writers/musical theatre performers so it is a great group. Meredith Shaw and Giovanni Amenta who played Janet and Brett in the Plane Crazy workshop last March are back for this session too. Actually Sarina's class was how I met them and eventually cast them in the workshop. BTW, Meredith will be appearing inLittle Shop of Horrors as Chiffon from March 23 through 26 at the Isabel Bader Theatrehere in Toronto. (All proceeds donated to the Toronto People With Aids Foundation). And there were a couple of newbies in class today too.

Sarina's teachings focus on the African origins of dance and rhthym, with Latin, Arabic and modern dance thrown in too. I'm not usually the type of person who gets spiritual and in touch with the earth, but Sarina's enthusiasm and lack of pretense are so wonderfully inclusive and infectious that I can't help but discover my inner warrior!

By the end of the eight weeks I'm fully expecting to be a lean, mean dancing machine (and maybe touch my toes if I'm lucky!)
By Suzy Conn on March 6, 2005 8:03 AM | | Comments (0)


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