Well I finally did it! After weeks of passing by tap classes at Pineapple Dance Studio in London (a main reason I arranged an apt in Covent Garden to begin with) I successfully made it through a Derek Hartley tap class (“elementary”). First time since the bizarre knee injury of October (doctors never did say just when I could go back). It’s quite amazing to walk in off the street, and see he is doing exactly what I have seen him do for years---teaching super-cool jazz-tap routines, telling the same tap jokes, and dancing just as great as ever! Mind-altering to find myself tapping to a smooth and jazzy “Lullaby of Birdland” again,(a favorite). Limping just a little, but exhilarated. Now it's back to tapping my way through philosophical minefields, or perhaps, pirouetting (as Christian Robert put it).
I don’t know why some of the pictures on this blog do not appear on some devices---need the Elba crew to get to the bottom of this. I’ll be traveling back there soon enough….
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