Greetings Mer Community!
as already stated in my introduction post some time ago,
I'd like to start a mermaid waterballet group.
In the past, I've worked as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer,
and I think the time has come to haul some people into the water!
What I have in mind is similar to "normal" synchro swimming/waterballet,
but adapted to swimmers wearing a tail.
Eventually, we want to build a diverse repertoire of choreographies, consisting of dance moves and formation swim figures (both at the surface, and under water-
depending on whether the location is a tank with sideways visibility, or a conventional pool).
Once we have a stable, dependable group and our repertoire down,
we can go public and perform (hotels, private parties, faires, events, etc);
but for now, I'm mostly looking for people in the area, who would like to join for an informal swim (and are also interested in trying out synchro swimming in the future).
If you would like to participate, you should have a tail (any material; fabric is fine and probably best for waterballet) and of course be a good swimmer, comfortable in a tail/monofin.
If you had dance training at some point (ballet, jazz, modern, flamenco, bellydance...),
you will find synchro swimming probably very easy
We thought to base our initial training somewhere in the Stuttgart area-
there is one very good pool with olympic standards there, which is suited for synchro swimming, and it has almost no chlorine due to a complex-ozone-method.
There is yet another with low chlorine where I regularly train, more shallow sadly, but much less frequented, so we should have space there.
Anyway, let me know if you're interested, and we can discuss exact times and locations.
One final word.
I'm very enthusiastic about a mer swim/ballet group, however it will turn out-
whether we can perform publicly at some point, or keep it solely for fun-,
however I cannot completely rule out the possibility that my chronical illness will act up
and prevent me from doing much.
I hope this will not happen, but it might, especially if I'm doing stuff like flips, turns,
or sudden direction changes.
So please bear with me, and keep that in mind if there are much less continuous flips and backflips in the choregraphy than you'd like.
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