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Jason's York Come Dancing Experience #2

Jason and Claire
Wednesday, 11th November 2009
I'll try to keep it briefer than last time! Anyway, we had another practice. We now have, along with most of the dancing couples, between 40 and 55 seconds of choreography worked out (though not by any means to perfection), and things are going alright. I'm slowly getting the hang of what's going on and there wasn't any significant maiming of toes (as far as I noticed) but there's still a LOT left to do, including sorting posture and also all the difficult bits of dancing.

The bit that we do have includes the start, and therefore enables me to start practising independently by listening and miming to the track (though I haven't started that yet) and get used to the flow of the piece.

The others are doing well; the same people stand out as last week except that Emily Scott's now edging out to the front as well after witnessing some acrobatics and noting their music choice. Peter is still standing out in my book though Lewis and Tim are still looking very confident and determined so I'm still watching them.

And, of course, it's too early to tell at the moment how people will dance on the night - and also how you guys will react. Anybody (and there were a couple of non-attendees included in this) could have a lot of private lessons or just suddenly get the hang of something difficult and become a favourite.

Our facebook group is online - follow us and our progress at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=172967237383

Interesting, for me at least, was that Ollie Hutchings decided to pip me for the top spot. With only one prediction in my favour (out of about 30 so far) I'm rating my chances as 'rather slim', but it's nice to have some support, so thanks Ollie :P

As always, comment with queries or whatever and if you want to follow the competition, check YCD's twitter feed: http://twitter.com/yorkcomedancing

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