Movement & Dance I- September 23

This is a very angry post, so I'm going to add a
couple happy pictures, done by Jessie Wortley.

So for the past couple classes, despite my best efforts to avoid it, I've somehow managed to get stuck dancing either by, or beside [guy in my program]. And it's not that I don't like [guy in my program] so much as being around him in dance makes me want to pull my ears off.

I'm not a dancer. I'm trying to be one, and I'm trying to work harder at becoming a not terrible dancer, which tends to take a lot of mental strength and concentration, especially if I want to avoid doing something like hitting someone, running into them, or falling over. When I'm more secluded, or dancing by people who understand this, I can function okay, because I'm left to my own devices, and I can focus and not break anything. However when I'm constantly being distracted, that's a different story.

Jessie recently did a projet on image
paralellisms where she took a photo of me in the
midst of a tendu, then a second one of me
writing. She got the second highest mark!

Take today for example. We're dancing at the barre, and I'm starting to get into my head space where things aren't quite real anymore. When I get to that space, it's just me and the barre, and nothing can get at me or under my skin. I'm JUST starting to get up into that realm when [guy in my program] starts being [guy in my program]. He stops listening and paying attention, he's loud, he refuses to dance, he starts trying to talk to me, and makes faces when I ignore him. At one point he hoisted himself up onto the barre and tried to somersault over top of it.  I get that he might not like this class, but some days I want to smack him upside the head and tell him to get his ---- togther.

This isn't even the first time he's done this. Monday, when we were doing pilates, he kept putting his dirty socks in my face. At one point he started trying to stick his toes up my nose! It's like working with 4 year olds all over again.

I know that I'm not a good dancer, and I'll never be one, but I'm absolutely infuriated with [guy in my program] at the fact that he not only doesn't care about whether he learns anything or not, but he doesn't even care that he's stopping other people from learning.