Dancing Into Summer

 I can't believe I totally missed posting in May.  

Having clobbered my toe in April, I may have been a bit off balance when I slipped and wrenched my left arm, shoulder and back getting the dog buckled into the car in May.  So I did not return to ballet classes even though the foot healed up.  Instead I'm doing tap dance this summer.  It does not require specific arm movements.

I had forgotten that the terminology is so colorful: 

• Tap, flap, slap.  
• Spank, stomp, step.  
• Brush, scuff.  Scuffle, shuffle. 
• Ball-change, dig.

I could do an entire ESL class on how to tap dance, teaching the practical meaning of these words at the same time.

And then there are all the different types of dance.  That vocabulary could be useful for a group discussion about the types of dance done in their country of birth: ballet, folk, modern, hip-hop, jazz,  bollywood, ballroom, waltz, salsa, rhumba, swing and so much more.