After 7 and a half years of a crazy relationship, a proposal came, even crazier - on a magical winter evening (February 14, 2009), driving from Brasov to Bucharest (we are dental medicine students). My boyfriend was driving, and he pulled out the ring, and the lightning-fast proposal came along with the long-awaited response "YES". After a few days of fairy tale (we were both on cloud nine), we conscientiously started looking for a date (July 24, 2010), a venue, a photographer, invitations - all in advance, because we knew the drill, having helped our friends with their wedding planning.
As we wanted everything to be PERFECT - just as everyone wishes, in April 2010, we started thinking about the opening dance of the wedding. First, we found the song, one that is very dear to us - IRIS & ANDANTINO - "Endless Waltz". And then we had to find the KEY PERSON - the one who would help us create a dance to this song - the CHOREOGRAPHER.
My love called, I called, we didn't like anyone - neither how they spoke, nor that they didn't have a rehearsal space and they would come to our house, sometimes the fee wasn't quite
right. But one evening, by pure chance, we found GOBY on the Internet, Marius called, and miraculously - he was calm on the phone, had his own studio where we could work on the dance, and in 2 days, he awaited us for the first session. At first, I admit that neither of us was very convinced that he would be the choreographer, we didn't know if we would like him, we were sure that there had to be that chemistry and understanding between all of us, and not
only that, he would tell us what to do, and we would execute like robots.
The first session was okay, he seemed open-minded (later we found out he is a psychologist too), communicative, relaxed. He asked us to dance something as a couple - it was probably the funniest moment - I knew how to dance somewhat (I had a few dance lessons when I was young), but my husband was inexperienced. After observing us, Goby determined the level he should start with, he was very calm and told us that we will succeed in dancing together by the end, we just had to want it, and he would surely do his best to make it go well.
At the beginning of each session, we did warm-ups, talked about what we had been doing,
how our practice at home went (we practiced basic steps), then we tried to dance small sections of the song. I admit that at first, it seemed difficult, and we didn't think we would succeed, especially since the song is heavy, and Goby told us that we chose a song that was somewhat difficult to choreograph for the wedding dance, but it turned out very well in the end.
We learned to do the New York step, the classic waltz step, the chassés (these were killing me), but everything was slow, without stress, and with a lot of patience from Goby's part.
There were also fun moments when we had to dance the dance in the partner's position (we had 5 left feet), Marius couldn't stand straight - he had to dance with his hand behind his back and hold an umbrella in the spinal area, when I wore the crinoline it was criminal, we couldn't reach each other. In the waltz, towards the end, we had a leap - I had to run diagonally across the room and jump into my boyfriend's arms, who had to catch me and
spin me twice. I think it was the hardest to accomplish, until we learned how to position ourselves - we were touching each other's knees - we both had many bruises, the spinning in the air didn't go well, it was about 1-1.5 rotations, but in the end, it worked out and it worked perfectly at the wedding. One of the most challenging moments was when, after learning the dance sections for the three parts of the song (that's how we divided the song), we had to
connect them, it was difficult, especially to remember what we had just learned at moment x, that's why we worked 2-3 hours per session to get it right and in the end, it worked.
It was probably the most fun but also hardworking period before the big event. I miss it a lot because we used to rehearse together with a friend, we talked about absolutely everything, it was our time to unwind during the week, a period filled with relaxation, enthusiasm, and the desire to achieve what we set out to do.
Goby managed to turn two completely different people into a whole, he managed to make us dance together.
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