8AM dance class

I'm trying to expand my dance experience and vocabulary, which is proving much harder than I expected. First, finding dance in Theater & Dance is largely impossible, since the dancers operate on an entirely different plane. Theater people don't know much about them. The dancers hide behind locked doors. I have been trying to make connections, which is tricky, since they don't seem to check email.

I found one guy who does Laban. He recommended his new somatics class at UCSB. Which is scheduled for 8AM. Ouch. In an attempt to get to know this guy, pick his brain, etc, I dragged my butt out of bed at 7.30AM. Let me tell you what I think of biking in the fog/mist (with glasses on since it's too early to pry my eyes open enough to put contacts in), with a wet bike seat. To do a movement class before my body, let alone my mind can function. Extra bitchy - the instructor was late. Then we spend all of the class lying on our back trying to be aware of our breath and body. All I was aware of was how much comfier my bed is.

When I got home, I was so sore. Fell asleep so hard I was drooling. And the interrupted vampire hours combined with movement that early tweaked my cataplexy. Nothing like feeling like your body cannot move because all muscle tissue has been replaced by lead.

I'm really not persuaded that this class has any merit. Or at least not enough merit to drag ass that early. But he might make a great resource, so it makes it harder to blow it off.