Chapter 125
Chapter 125
Another week, another dance that Catalina was planning to teach her kids.
She would focus on the teenagers only and their abilities as she was planning to send some of them to TVshows and enroll them with the music projects in the country. Since she had the right contacts and there were many talented kids, she wanted to make them touch their talents in real stages.
What really mattered now was teaching the kids to connect more with each other through the music and dance. And what would really crown her work would be the moment that the southern kids as well will be admitted to school as well and as a united country they would socialize with each other in Syncron.
Catalina remembered how she danced with the group from the tefns that night that she was there with Issa, when she had the confrontation with Idriz also. She wondered what might have been with that guy, but knowing Ricardo probably his story did not go well.
\-“What are these new clothes for?” One of the kids asked and she focused on her growing group of different ages.
\-“Gather everyone. I have seen that many of you do not wear tight clothes when you dance. I don’t mind that but think about dancing as a sport. An athlete trains better in tight clothes when he trains and then in his right costume.”
Then she continues again, while giving them some forms to fill with their preferred dance to choose. Another kid helped her with the pencils.
\-“You are all growing in number, and I will divide you into different groups. In order so we can decide the clothes I need you to choose what kind of genres do you want to train in. The most preferred class will be done together once a week, while those who has special or other preferences need to write it down for me.”
The kids approached her and
\-“Wow!” Many of the presenters were happy to hear about the new changes.
\-“Oh, I want to definitely sign for the tango classes!”
“You are such a romantic, I will go for Bollywood group. The body is more spontan and there are easy steps to remember and I have more fun.” – “Me too. I like that also.”
\-“No, no I would stick with belly dancing instead. I am more into traditional and I also have learned it home too. My mom would love to see me perform it better.”
As the kids were speaking loudly, Catalina went on with her preparations. Now the studio was filled with more kids, and they were more friendly to each other.
Catalina liked now that were more respectful rather than hostile since the beginning. Mostly it was not their fault. Many came from rich families that called themselves superiors and their parents were furious that they had shared class, but this never stopped her from bringing them together. With clear rules that they should respect each other, no one dared to overstep her.
Probably because the headmaster made the art class a mandatory for their passing year and exams. After all those who were strictly against her teaching ideas, went on with the courses of instrument learning with the girls from the French embassy.
In that moment Catalina thought about Mary and Sophi the girls she always had to be careful about and it was some time she hadn’t bumped into them and better this way. Less school drama.
\-“You can all leave the forms at the table there at the corner when you finish”. Catalina reminded them pointing at where the table was.
As they finished and did as she said, she added:
\-“Today is Monday and I have decided we need some Zumba to shake our hot bumps.” She winked at them from the mirror and all the kids laughed while really shaking their bumps.
\-“Now I want all to take their position. Rember Zumba is not for getting fit, but for having fun as well. I don’t want to see serious or over focused faces in the mirror. It is important to dance with the heart and then with the feet’s.”
After she put on the music, she also positioned herself in front of the mirrors and with all the kids behind her following her. Since the music started ahead of her, she waited for some seconds before continuing showing them the steps.
\-“Now that’s it! Everyone has happy faces! Come on!” she then motivated them to keep a good energy and happy faces in her class. Memories and good vibes were what she wanted to give them to remember. Their life outside of that room was full of rules with a harsh reality that at least during her hour she wanted them to feel safe while in there.
\-“Jump higher Elen! Follow the rhythm.” She said to one of the girls who was not following as the others. And so, she went on checking on them and improving where they need.
After they left she went on checking their forms and regrouping them to their preference and keeping Monday and Friday for all of them to be together. This would help them keep in touch and have more fun together. She thought of using the opportunity for them to show their skill to one another. What they learned during the week to perform on Friday or Monday if they wanted to.
After lunch with Stella at the school she still had to be back for the little girl’s ballet.
Since she has been so busy lately, she had almost left their lessons with her assistants, so it would be better to be present herself as well.
She decided to keep her long black dancing skirt with her black tights and black sleeves and only did her hair in a messy bunny gather in order not to be late preparing with them as well.
\-“Very nice girls! It has been a while since we have been working on this piece. Soon we will put this on the school stage, and you will all make a spectacular show.” She praised them while kissing them in the air with her hands.
\-“But we still need to complete. Today I will show you the last part that we will repeat for the next time.”
\-“But miss Catalina, we will leave soon our time is already finishing, how can we learn it?” One of the little girls said in her sweet voice, but Catalina sat on her level and after kissing her on the cheek she said:
\- “I mean that you can just watch it today, I will perform the last piece only to see it now and the following days we will practice it. Today we repeated the other two partitures to see that you all had learned it and you all did a great work.”
So, she showed them and the girls really liked it and clapped for her too. Before leaving they went to bid her goodbye as they usually did and went on to hug her.
But after the door’s window another figure was waiting for his turn to come closer hugging her too.