Another dance workshop under my belt
Nov. 19th, 2011 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soniaExcept it was an Armenian workshop, not a Bulgarian one, so there were no dance belts involved.
I had so much fun a couple of years ago at a small dance workshop with Hasmik Harutyunyan, I emailed asking her to let me know the next time she'd be in Oregon. She did, and I picked a day and found a space to rent, and suddenly I was running a workshop. Yikes! I got the Kyklos International Folk Dancers involved to help both with logistics and the financial risk. Turns out lots of people came, but I was a whole lot less stressed with their backing.
I don't mind organizing workshops, and I seem to have the requisite skills, but I get completely overwhelmed during the event itself, even though (or maybe because) they go well. Feels similar to when I have parties at my house. Everyone else has a great time, but I'm too focused on being a hostess to have a good time myself. There's a raw, overloaded feeling like a wire that's running too much electricity.
Does anyone else react like that? Any thoughts on how to ground myself so I have a good time, while still holding energy for the event?
I also, in an unguarded moment, ate a piece of sliced pear. It was deliciously ripe, but it had been sitting out near the cookies, and I felt that familiar energy slump of gluten contamination a few minutes later. Sigh. That definitely takes me from whee! to ugh... in a hurry. Note to Self: Eating and dancing don't mix!
I had so much fun a couple of years ago at a small dance workshop with Hasmik Harutyunyan, I emailed asking her to let me know the next time she'd be in Oregon. She did, and I picked a day and found a space to rent, and suddenly I was running a workshop. Yikes! I got the Kyklos International Folk Dancers involved to help both with logistics and the financial risk. Turns out lots of people came, but I was a whole lot less stressed with their backing.
I don't mind organizing workshops, and I seem to have the requisite skills, but I get completely overwhelmed during the event itself, even though (or maybe because) they go well. Feels similar to when I have parties at my house. Everyone else has a great time, but I'm too focused on being a hostess to have a good time myself. There's a raw, overloaded feeling like a wire that's running too much electricity.
Does anyone else react like that? Any thoughts on how to ground myself so I have a good time, while still holding energy for the event?
I also, in an unguarded moment, ate a piece of sliced pear. It was deliciously ripe, but it had been sitting out near the cookies, and I felt that familiar energy slump of gluten contamination a few minutes later. Sigh. That definitely takes me from whee! to ugh... in a hurry. Note to Self: Eating and dancing don't mix!
