Teaching the bent-knee shimmy in last Thursday's class, I was trying to explain the relaxed loose flop of the movement's reverberation.  Searching for parallels, I suggested, "you know, like those funny internet pictures of running basset hounds," but was met with blank stares.  While not exactly the type of inspirational images I had hoped to be sharing on this blog, I promised to post pictures, so, here they are:
 
A palette cleanser:
A palette cleanser:
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| Photograph by Mirka Adamsky Rackova, via NationalGeographic.com | 
Olé!

