Droppin’ It Like It’s Hot
When I wasn’t being all reclusive and PMS-y this weekend, I was engaging in all manner of eccentric fat girl behavior. For instance - in the blurry picture above, I can be observed getting all handsy with Marina Wolf Ahmad, the mad genius behind Big Moves. A totally off-the-hook experiment in size-positive ass-kickingness, Big Moves is a dance company run by Marina simultaneously in San Fran, Boston, New York, and soon Montreal, that shatters the notion that dance is just for teenie-weenies. Once a month, Marina comes to our fair city to teach Jazz and Intro to Hip Hop and this weekend was my third attempt to release my inner fly girl in the Hip Hop class. I have to admit, when I first took the class as an assignment for the magazine, I just expected a gentle exercise class with better-than-average music. But I was totes mistaken. Marina is a big girl with fierce skills and expects everyone to keep up with her elaborate choreography regardless of size. She’s like Debbie Allen in fame, making me pay in sweat and all, only she doesn’t freak out and yell in the face of my apalling lack of coordination. She says she may start a branch of her Hip Hop performance troupe The Phat Fly Girls here in the city…Do I dare audition? How will I look in knee pads? Will neon be involved? In any case she rules, her company rules, and I feel all sweaty and satisfied after a sesh with her. Its not just for fatties either - so if you’re feeling curious, check her out the next time she swings through town!