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The class was very non-verbal. She did speak English and answer questions, but her words for moves are very different than ours, with the exception of the ballet terms. For example, if she was only doing a little shimmer, she would say that there was no shimmy. if she really wanted to see whether we were talking about the same thing, she would tell us to do it and then watch us. Like she had us do a shimmy and then she checked to see what people were doing - corrected people who were doing american-style hip shimmies. Her big thing though was keeping your legs together. She called people out for that throughout the day and mentioned it was a problem in the show the night before. My teacher is a big fan of keeping thighs together so I can't wait to tell her about that. :-)
For each song, she took the time at the end to briefly translate it but the Sabah song was too difficult to translate - she said it was so Egyptian, she couldn't translate to English. I think it was Hadia who helped us out ehre, saying some of the words were "You melt my insides so much that my clothing melts off my body." Hot stuff.
the workshops were packed on the first day. the second day it cleared out and was easier to follow. People like Hadia were in the front, which was helpful!
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