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She was absolutely the hardest trainer I have had for a long long time, and you know, I have seen many! I am going to post pics when I receive them but she really liked to teach here. On the first day, we did alot of high level technique, special Randa steps and actually, runs. Hard to describe, but she has her own specific way of moving around. It seems easy when you look at it, but when you try to follow her, you move like an old cow compared to her.
She really RUNS also backwards. On the second course we learned a completely new choreo, her entrance dance called Randa Dance and a very, absolutely sexy song with some crazy words. she made it very clear that we have to use all parts of the body when dancing, the head, the neck, the eyes, the eyebrows, toes, lips, everything.

Also she wanted us to keep the body straight at all times, even when sitting and when sleeping (Caroline nearly asked how does it happen). And all the time she got to remind us that hands are extremely important and she wants to see them also straight, always, everywhere, and the lifts to be determined and focused, when you move you move, and when not, then just stay.

And all the way she was working with us, going from one to another, helping with posture, hands, timing. She wanted to finish the whole choreo and gave us a free 45 mins in the end to complete it. We loved that, loved her, and she also seemed to enjoy. In a few cases she laughed to my expressions because I was overdoing it, and we giggled like small girls together. She also talked good english, even translated the dirty song to us and we laughed even more. And her drummer, too, nearly fell down when laughing with us
(caroline, remember when Randa asked him to shut his eyes, when we practiced the "certain" movement.....!!!)

What was the best thing I think was the small size of classes, we really got to know her and had space to move. She was wearing white socks and a black unitard for the class (Caroline, hopefully you can describe it better, and the pics will of course).

The show was also fantastic, you know, she had a driving energy, and I liked that she put everything there -her charisma, her body - to let us enjoy. The orchestra had an excellent singer and Raed, the derwish, amazed also everyone. He does to turning with such a pleasure that he seems to be dancing. Actually,I later heard that he is a good folklore dancer, too.

After the event, I had to travel to India in business so it took me this long to
come back to bhuz, but I'll post more later.

I knew it was going to be a great event but it really was at least ten times more better in many ways that I expected.