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Lately in the Hip-Hop Dance World.

So I have been seeing a lot of videos on youtube lately that have dancers dancing to electro and dubstep music beats.  It seems like a cool new thing to try but very hard to chreo too because of all the abstract beats.  I might have to try this.

What Dance Means To Me.

I have been dancing ever since my father showed me a Micheal Jackson music video when I was young.  Ever since then I have been trying to perfect his moves and be just as great as dancers as he was.  At Weddings I would dance for just the pure enjoyment of it when I was younger.  As middle school came around so did middle school dances, finally a place where I could showcase my skills and have an actual outlet for my dancing.  Middle school turn into high school and came more dances which I enjoyed even more while trying to become a more developed dancer.  But after high school there isn't much for a dancer who only dances as a hobby to dance and I feel I have had to suppress my dancing because of it.  But as my emotions build up over time I feel I must dance.  Dance for me is one way to express my anger, happiness, sadness, and all the other millions of feelings I feel throughout the day.  Sometime its triggered by a song that inspires me.  Or the people and friends I surround myself with or even other people that I see through out the day.  I can see someone and get the urge to go dance with them and I can see a whole routine that we perform for everyone in the food court. But I don't because obviously that could never happen.  Its things that this that keep me hoping that I can do something with my dance, even if its just to get a smile out of the room especially from the pretty girl.
Lately I have been filming some of my freestyle sessions.  Once I figure out how to get them on the laptop I'll put some of the videos up.
Thanks for listening.

What Next

After finishing my chero piece I was wondering if I could maybe expand my dancing to something further than Hip-Hop. Maybe Ballroom?

Further in the Process

Just expended on my chero on my piece is starting to look good.

Who to show?

As i continue to work on my dance I am wondering what I should do with it after I am finished with it.  I was thinking about making a video and posting it online but I know how harsh some peoples comments can be on the internet and I don't know if I  am ready for that yet.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Slowly but surely my dance is coming together, but I am having a hard time coming up with other moves for my piece.  The way I have being coming up with new step is just turning on some music to dance to and making up the first thing that comes to my mind.  It basically is just me being able to express my movemnet and practice my dancing.  I like it it helps me relax and takes my mind off of everything.

Inspirations

When it comes to dancing and inspirations, I get them from many things such as a shoe, car, commercial, movie,song.  But my biggest influences come from other dancers. I just want to list the dancers that influence me.
Les Twins
Ian Eastwood
Phi Nguyen
Lando Wilkins
Mike Song
Tony Tran
Pacman
Jabbawockeez
Michael Jackson
Hok
Andrew Baterina
Brian Puspos
D Trix
Twitch
And those are all the ones that I can remmeber right now(all of the names are links so you can click on them and see who the dancer is)

Small Misstep

So my collaboration that I was going to have with my dancer friend will have to be put on hold, unfortunately she injured herself while dancing for her company.  This is just a minor bump in the road, but once she has recovered we will start on our collaboration.  In the meantime I might as well start on my first solo piece, I have still yet to decide on a song but I am pretty sure I have it narrowed down to a few songs.  I really like the artist called Drake.  The lyrics in his songs seem to be the easiest to be able to chronograph a dance to.
Wish me luck!

Colabboration

So  a friend has approached me and was offering to help me with my first piece by doing a collaboration with me.  This sunday we are going to pick a song and she is a contemporary dancer so it is going to be a mix of contemporary and hip-hop.  I have never been so excited and I am so thankful for her help!

Song choice

So my song choice is going to be a lot more difficult than I originally thought.  I assumed I was going to do my first choice which was Rhianna's song but I cant really see any movements that I could choreography to and I also am considering using a Drake song called "Up All Night".  I can see a lot of movements that I could put to the song but I feel that it might be a little too fast pace for me to do my first piece too.

Step One

I have never tried to choreography before so I am basing my process of guessing.  I figure the first step would be choosing a song.  I have a playlist on my Ipod just for songs that I like dancing to so I will pick my song from there.  I recently found a song through a youtube video watching some french twins who are turning to be some big inspirations on my dancing (Twin dancers) the song is called russian roulette by Rhianna.  I have yet to start on working with it. Wish me luck!