Category: Dancing
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Reflections on Last Night’s Dance Performance
[Copied from a site that I deleted] An experimental piece is never inherently bad—it’s just more likely than not to fall short, simply because of the nature of experimentation. Just as most new businesses fail due to their inherent novelty, an experimental dance piece is also more likely to receive polite silence rather than rousing…
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Why I stop competing
[This post received zero editing. What you read is what I wrote. I use AI transcription to convert my voice into text that you read.In the era of heavy editing and filtering, I want my voice to be as genuine and honest as possible, Cloest to the source] I figured I will ask this question…
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Belly of the beats and Just write me something honest
It is incredibly difficult to be honest. Even with this writing, I am tempted to say stuff that shows off my knowledge that’s why I am writing in obsidian and not on my blog before I want to publish. So yesterday I went to the belly of the beats battle, I wasn’t physically in the…
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This week in dancing, week March 10
Reading my note on paper from many months ago I wrote “start with emotions and feelings first and then use techniques. Abstraction is implemented by the techniques.” Now I’m questioning if this principle is too restricting? Most of the things that I am doing and taught by Katie start with movements and we haven’t talk…
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Physical/Dance related questions – Nov27 to Dec3
How can I achieve the cow postures (2nd of the Kadour Ziani’s 7 mobility postures) and strengthen ankles in that direction to prevent injuries?
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Next chapter in my dance life
I found myself completing reorienting in terms of how I approach dancing after I moved to Toronto. I guess a new environment does inspire changes and new thinking. The reorientation is all about creativity. I decided that climbing the ladder in the competitive dance world is the least appealing because I can see right to…
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Being a Dancer Doesn’t Guarantee Originality
Written originally in English. 中文译文在英文版后。 A long time ago, I read a YouTube comment on a popping competition video along these lines: the quality of dance has deteriorated compared to the skills of the OGs who invented everything in the 70s and 80s. What makes this argument notable is our usual assumption that things are…
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Sitting in a pocket in freestyling
I found the oldest footage of MT Pop on YouTube. This is 13 years old. It shows why MT Pop is able to sit in a pocket of a style or moves and seemingly create unlimited number of variations – he practiced using one style throughout an entire song, and the song is over 4…
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Ear training for dancing
Concepts: Timbre, tone and texture https://www.musical-u.com/learn/topic/ear-training/timbre/https://www.musical-u.com/learn/hearing-tone-timbre-texture/ Timbre Active listening: https://www.musical-u.com/learn/how-to-hear-more-in-the-music-you-love/ Ear training on timbre and frequency in bass drums: https://www.musical-u.com/learn/music-production-listening-skills-timbre-frequency-and-bass-drums/
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