On the brighter side, I'm in Seattle and practicing with Topher. We took off some clothing and practiced in front of mirrors, and when dancing in my skivvies, I realized that I started doing some of Al Minn's moves from the diaper dance. Al Minns was one of the old great jazz dancers, and there is a short clip of him dancing blues in a documentary called the Spirit Moves. He comes out in a diaper - moving and gyrating - all his body integrated in a wonderful and sensual example of male dancing. It is one of those dances that so severely impressed itself on me that when I am dancing in my skivvies, I begin to do some of his moves unconsciously.
Dancing at Burn Blue, a local Seattle blues dance tonight. Still I haven't gone a night in the Northwest without dancing.
