Fantasy Aerobics
Only in the East Village can a gal such as myself roll out of bed at dawn to give her gym’s new “Cardio Wakeup” class a go, only to end up with a private fly girl lesson from one of Mariah Carey’s backup dancers from her “Fantasy” video!!!!! Seriously. You can’t make this shit up. At 7:30 AM, the heavily tattooed Levi had all the moves: we did the bus stop, pop and lock isolations, hip rolls and more to a remix of “She’s Like the Wind” while he shouted out directions a la Debbie Allen in FAME: “Five, six, seven, eight…and FREAK…and FREAK…and FREAK!” He also had many entertaining anecdotes about how I could use these moves in clubland, and even had a special excersise “for the back of my jeans…to make the guys turn ’round.” When the class was over, the girl running the juice bar outside the classroom gave me a round of applause, so I guess while I was getting a private lesson, I unwittingly became her private dancer.