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#10: What is syncopation? How is it valuable?
Have you heard of Mikhail Baryshnikov? Of course you have.. lol, who hasn't, right? Well I stumbled on upon a great video that I want to show you, of him and Gregory Hines dancing together using something that I adore and that is.. syncopation.
Watch the video and then come back to me!
https://youtu.be/ImzkWZkaIIM?t=74
How'd you like it? They're not perfectly tight together, but it is a super fun number none the less. What's fun about it, is when they DON'T step when you think they will, OR,...
#22: Choices..and commitment!
Choices..We all have to make them
Have you ever been at a restaurant and said to the waiter, "I'm not sure what I want, the lemon seared trout with risotto or the chickpea/chicken curry bowl with naan..which would you recommend?" So often we're faced with a situation where 2 options would work, but we don't know which one we want.. or why! (After months of social isolation, you can see where my mind is at, a meal I don't have to make!! lol)
Like this little story, you, too, are faced with this daily...
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