As I was saying, Saturday's training was extremely exciting and overwhelming at the same time!! We did Zumba for a little over an hour first thing and then had a break for awhile and came back to a lecture from the ZES (Zumba Education Specialist) Madalene Aponte. She is such an excellent speaker and teacher! She has an awesome personality and told great stories about her experiences with the founder of Zumba, Beto Perez. She showed us how to break down a song and put it with choreography. Then we all got a chance to come up with choreography for a song. We broke up into 4 groups and put choreo to a song. I'm actually gonna use that choreo for my future classes!! :) We had lunch and then the afternoon was a solid 2.5 hours of dancing and learning the first 4 basic Zumba rhythms: Merengue, Cumbia, Salsa and Reggaeton. The other 4 will be learned at my next Zumba training whenever I decide to go.
I joined ZIN (Zumba Instructor Network) so that I could be privy to new choreo when it's released and new music! It'll give me that extra boost for my classes that I will be teaching eventually.
Other cool news: I made my business cards and started giving them out. I've already gotten calls from 2 places wanting to get to know me and see what I've got to offer!! :) :) Tuesday night will be my first demonstration class for a place that hasn't started Zumba yet and is trying to see if it's for them. I hope I can convince them!! On Friday, I will stop by another studio to get to know the owner and see what she's offering me too. She really wants to meet me and have me do a little audition for her. Guess I better bring my music and ZUMBAWEAR just in case she wants me to perform...
I will let ya'll know what happens with my new endeavors!
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