Ahh, choreographing… a shifty, finikey process but what joy to have the final creation of inspiration to share with the world!  It really helps when the partner is on the same wave-length because often the timing subtleties and the artistic details cannot be easily communicated in plain language: it’s more of a feel and vision kind of thing.  Justin and I are working on a rumba for the upcoming New Year’s Eve show at Absolute Ballroom (www.absoluteballroomtn.com) and it’s been a slow start but a great coming together of little pieces today, shaping up into a very nice routine.  We are both so open to inspiration and to combining different elements of dance, as well as to challenging ourselves.  For instance, there are lifts I thought I shouldn’t do but I should listen to my own advice: “how do you know you can’t do something unless you try it?” (some restriction may apply, of course – just apply common sense…).  The inspiration for us starts usually with a great piece of music.  For this particular one we chose Iio’s “Runaway”.  With a little help from Audacity (a nifty music editing software), I pieced the music just right and off we went.  In Justin’s words “it’s like dancing mad math”, trying to match our choreography pieces to the music counts and the feel of the song.  I didn’t think I loved math but this kind of math, I do.