Small Joys - Burns Night Videos!
Jan. 29th, 2021 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressFor the last two(?) years I've taught dancing at a frou-frou Burns Night hosted by a fancy cafe out in Concord. I got contacted a couple years ago by the guy who MCs, assuming that ~naturally~ I was willing to help do the online version, and while I grumbled a little internally about being roped into an added responsibility, I do ultimately enjoy the thing and was tentatively willing to help out as long as expectations were very clear.
Expectations were made clear, I managed to record all my videos yesterday (later than I said, but before I got a nagging email being all "where they at?" and the dude sent out the final video today. I haven't watched the whole thing, but my 20 minute dance set is actually making me really happy. I mean, it's a single person ceilidh dancing by themself in their bedroom to pipe music over YouTube, which is...inherently sad, but I actually feel like my instruction was relatively clear and not too complex.
((I haven't arranged compensation with the restaurant yet, which I should probably do, but executive functioning is hard, but I'm thinking I'll see if I can just forego monetary comp in exchange for being able to post the videos other places --with my piper's permission, of course! If that happens, I'll post it somewhere for y'all if you wanna watch me be sad but also happy alone in my bedroom.))
(((There's a totally separate post to be made about gender and taking the ~easy~ route and being fake and I'm...just too tired for any of it right now. I dressed in my whites because they were easier to find than all the pieces of kilt-sporran-shirt-hose-flashes-vest-princecharlie. There are parts of the lesson that are so *very* teacher-voice and it's not that my teacher-voice is fake per se, but it's also a lot closer to customer-service-voice in some ways. I dunno, I still like the overall thing. It's...it's earnest, which is interesting, that it can feel both earnest and a little fake at the same time. Maybe I am just too cynical overall.
Also yes, I wore the marshmallow dress of my own free will which shows just how fucking desperate I am to be back in Scots gear, but to be fair, I didn't wear any of the poofy under-layers and also an individual cannot have a gender in contrast to their surroundings and that weirdly helps.)))
~Sor
MOOP!
Expectations were made clear, I managed to record all my videos yesterday (later than I said, but before I got a nagging email being all "where they at?" and the dude sent out the final video today. I haven't watched the whole thing, but my 20 minute dance set is actually making me really happy. I mean, it's a single person ceilidh dancing by themself in their bedroom to pipe music over YouTube, which is...inherently sad, but I actually feel like my instruction was relatively clear and not too complex.
((I haven't arranged compensation with the restaurant yet, which I should probably do, but executive functioning is hard, but I'm thinking I'll see if I can just forego monetary comp in exchange for being able to post the videos other places --with my piper's permission, of course! If that happens, I'll post it somewhere for y'all if you wanna watch me be sad but also happy alone in my bedroom.))
(((There's a totally separate post to be made about gender and taking the ~easy~ route and being fake and I'm...just too tired for any of it right now. I dressed in my whites because they were easier to find than all the pieces of kilt-sporran-shirt-hose-flashes-vest-princecharlie. There are parts of the lesson that are so *very* teacher-voice and it's not that my teacher-voice is fake per se, but it's also a lot closer to customer-service-voice in some ways. I dunno, I still like the overall thing. It's...it's earnest, which is interesting, that it can feel both earnest and a little fake at the same time. Maybe I am just too cynical overall.
Also yes, I wore the marshmallow dress of my own free will which shows just how fucking desperate I am to be back in Scots gear, but to be fair, I didn't wear any of the poofy under-layers and also an individual cannot have a gender in contrast to their surroundings and that weirdly helps.)))
~Sor
MOOP!