The internz group at Microsoft is a resource of all the activities going around the campus. Always been passionate about dancing, the dance class at café 34 caught my attention. It was Wednesday and I was all prepared for the dance class since morning. I had a meeting with guys in Microsoft Research at 2 pm followed by a brain storming session with my mentor about the project. We played a pool game to freshen up. All was being so fruitful and I hoped the same for the dance class too :)
I wrapped up my work and headed to café 34 with no expectations as such since I was pretty disappointed with the same dance class concept at stony brook. To my surprise I saw intern colleagues dancing on soothing notes of – the so called “Bachata”. Well sounded funny but I was more or less interested in the name rather than dancing. I was waiting for a while since I was late by 10 min as usual :). I was looking around for a partner. I saw a few gals dancing with other female partners. I wished if I could break their partnership to learn the dance steps. Well since the day was destined to be lucky for me, the instructor called up “Partner change……”
I lately realized that I was in fact waiting for this command of his. A girl named Laurie approached me and introduced her to me and started teaching me the steps I missed and I tried following her judiciously. Well I tried on getting to know the dance but she seemed disinterested as if though I was unable to cope up with her. The instructor resounded “Partner Change…..” I was really hoping to have a partner that would be comfortable dancing with me and then as destined a cute looking girl with black sports inners and a sky blue dance top came close by and introduced herself. Her name was katie. My heart was pumping hard and I thought I wish I were an expert in Bachata, I could make her dance like a doll. I started the steps with a slight hesitation holding her. But suddenly it vanished when she said ‘don’t feel shy, hold me properly….’(she got to know that I am an Indian:)) and that added to my comfort. With me having a good time dancing, it was end of it when I heard the same yelling “Partner change….” The rest of the class was more of learning with different partners.
The class ended up with the announcement that the next hour would be free for open dance and the music was being played. I never hoped that I would wait until Katie asked me for a dance on Bachata. She was talking to me as if she was my tutor – You are the lead and you should direct the dance by conveying through the hand grip and gentle elbow touches. Well like a good student, I learnt things thoroughly and she was happy with what I learnt. We stopped when samba was being played. It was this time that she told me that she lived in Washington DC and did her BS at university of Virginia, PhD at Texas, Austin and was an intern at Microsoft Research. Pretty impressive, she was also the president of the dance club in Virginia. I was happy that I learnt from a professional. Well it is a great experience that I had here at Microsoft.
I am going to attend all the Wednesday dance classes so that I learn a few other forms too. And of course that too from Katie……
Thursday, June 5, 2008
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4 comments:
Hey…good experience and I am glad that u shared it with us...
I was under the impression that u are a gud dancer but after reading ur blog I guess u need to learn a lot….
Do make sure that u attend all ur dance classes insipte of ur busy schedule.
& make more frds at wrk…
Enjy…
One of the finest blogs I have ever come across!!!!!!!!!!
I had participated in a Group Dance at one of our company's cultural event.
By reading this post, those practice days are coming ahead of my eyes.
Really, it's a great experience of dancing with a girl(esp. good looking and talented)
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