I went to see the Lipizzaner stallions in Cortez, the town near me. I wouldn't have thought they would perform in a podunk town like that, but they did! Two nights, even. The show was really good . . . interesting seeing them after working with Jennifer's Lipizzans. They, or at least some of them, seemed to be a lot smaller than Jennifer's horses. They did some cool tricks, including this one really unique thing, where the horse rears up on its hind legs, and then pushes off the ground and kicks out with his hind legs so that all four feet are off the ground. Very cool. They also did some synchronized riding, which was cool.
Our dance lesson tonight was the fox trot . . . but, a new way . . . touching. We've learned fox trot before, but we've never . . . touched. So, who is my first partner?! A woman! Denise, the teacher, says, "She's not going to do the touching with you," and I said, "Good!" So, I didn't get to practice that round. Next, I had Dapper Dan . . . he's one of the crew, older, very nice. So, the way we were taught to do it is that the couple is slightly off center from each other, so basically, my right stomach is touching his right stomach, or sort of. It was kind of weird doing that with all these "strangers" . . . mostly guys that I've danced with before, but still . . . weird. I see doing that with a boyfriend or something . . . but, I was a little uncomfortable with this. When I went out with that *much* older guy a couple months ago, he danced one of the dances like this and I was very uncomfortable. I'm all for touching . . . but, it's a little uncomfortable with strangers or people that I don't particularly want to be that close to.
Oh, and we never actually danced cheek to cheek . . . I just thought that was a good title!
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