Shut Up & Listen Feat. Jan
Jan is stealing the show, far right.
Jan has been brightening up our classes in Crofton Downs and Ngaio, and has injected class AND sass to our flash-mobs for as long as we can remember. Thank you for being such an important part of our lives, Jan! 🤩 Over to you!
*hands over the microphone*
My name is Jan and my friends call me … Jan.
Coordination level: On a good day – decidedly below average 😉
I’m happiest when… I’m with my family! I know that is a Miss-World-Beauty-Pageant-Answer, so I’ll give you a second answer too, which is… I’m happy in SO many situations! Although with my resting bitch face, it can be hard to tell 🤷♀️ So here goes: I’m happiest when I’m on my own, when I’m not lonely but I am alone, when I am with my friends, when I’m drinking coffee, when I’m drinking wine, when I’m dancing (of course), when I’m shopping (any sort – even grocery shopping is fun with a little imagination!) and when I’m with my cat 🐱 And of course, last but certainly not least, when I’m with my hubby and kids (well, most of the time anyway 🤫)
My favourite “guilty” pleasure music is anything a little bit country 🤠🎤 because nobody in my family likes it but me! And it makes them leave the room when I play it. Which, by the way, is very hard in a tiny apartment!
Best music video of all time is - I know I probably shouldn’t mention it, but Thriller was pretty good 😍
Something that I continually ask myself is What the F***
*Shut Up & Dance interjects*
“US TOO! 🤣”
*hands microphone back to Jan*
Dance is important because… it works your mind as well as your body. Well, I say that. Sometimes my mind is more on the coffee-and-chat after class with my buds! I really try to get it right, but sometimes the body refuses to do what it's told…. It seems to happen more and more these days. I do I wish I was 30 again…Actually no! I don’t. I enjoy the company of all the younger ladies (although I use the term ladies loosely after our chat a couple of weeks ago when we decided to exclude various subjects and were only left with sex to talk about – I now look at some people in a totally different way – who knew!). Dance, and this community teaches me a lot. I really believe it has kept me younger in spirit.
Something that has changed since my first Shut Up & Dance class is… I don't worry what people think of me! They’re all so busy worrying about themselves that they don't notice ya flabby arms or see-through tights ✨
The Shut Up & Dance routine that best describes me is Greased Lightning, because I was a bit of a rocker in my youth 🤘
My life motto is do what you want, as long as you do not hurt anybody else in the process 😇
My alter ego is Villanelle from Killing Eve…
My favourite artist is Keith Urban
I wanted to be a farmer when I grew up 👩🌾
The most important thing life has taught me so far is when you're, young life seems to stretch before you – like an open ocean, full of fishes, rocks and new places to visit– with all the time in the world 😌 As you age, the sea becomes a river and then a lake and you have more boundaries due to health and age issues. One day my sea will turn into a puddle, and then evaporate into the air, and will be no more! Life has taught me to enjoy each stage of life, right up to the end, as best you are able 🙌
To pay the bills I… work. Sort of. I am a Lifestyle Assistant. I made that title up, but it seems to fit what I do. I work for two very busy doctors in their house. I exist to make their lives as easy as possible after a hard day in surgery 🩺 If money was no object I would be constantly traveling to watch tennis, eat in the best restaurants and stay in top class hotels. I would also own greyhounds and take them everywhere with me 🐾
My most dorky moment this week was going to the hairdressers 24 hours before my appointment. See!? No dance class last week and I can't even read my diary…! 🥲
My most empowered moment this week was turning up to the hairdresser on time the next day. High five to me.
The world would be a better place with 100% nice people. Wait. Would that be too boring?
The routine I want to learn the most is any musical! 🎶🎭
If I was a cake I would be any cake that looks a bit past its use by date, but when you cut into it its as beautiful as the day it was made 🤍
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Jan, we want whatever cake you’re eating 😍