Jai Ho

I'm very, very excited because the new gym near my office has started offering dance classes on Monday and Wednesday nights. They're kind of like an exhausting combination of salsa, hip hop and kickboxing. And this week our instructor threw a little Bollywood into the mix. It was fantastic.

She had us do a dance to "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire (once again, please go see that movie if you haven't already), and she made sure to throw in a bunch of squats/lunges and fan kicks. Much of what she had us do I probably haven't done in about 10 years. So I discovered that high/fan kicking, much like flexibility, definitely belongs in the "use it or lose it" category. It was a super tiring class, but in a great way.

The routines reminded me of this fantastic dance that Ale and Becky showed me from So You Think You Can Dance. It remains one of my favorite pieces of choreography I've ever seen. Enjoy.