Dancing

[Cheiradawg]

This question is very general so any and all advice will help.

Where and how does one learn how to dance?

 

[BobbDobbs]

I've asked that around at various forums as well. It depends upon what kind of dancing you want to do.

Ballroom dance can be learned by taking lessons. Waltz, fox trot, polka, swing (east and west coast), rhumba, tango, cha cha, mambo, samba, etc.

The stuff you see at clubs, though, tends to be mostly free-style. So you just go watch and copy. Then personalize it.

If you just want to dance with random chicks, do the watch and copy method. Practice a bit first, of course. If you want to dance for performance reasons, you'll probably need more help.

 

[Menime]

i wanna dance like the artists nelly and ja rule... i like their dancin and many girls say they like it too

 

[hardwork]

Discussion

 

[Julian]

Yeah, you gotta have some sort of rthym before hand as well. Just watch videos on BET and MTV and dance. Emulate what they do.

 

[SLIKKER_THAN_AVG]

Try running a search, i think there are a lot of dancing threads from a while ago that are helpful.

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

First you need to know what kind of music you enjoy, the kind that makes you inadvertently tap your foot to the beat. If it's any type of ballroom dancing, take a class. If it is freestyle, I suggest the following:

Find clubs in your area that play that kind of music and stake them out. Just go on a Friday and a Saturday night. Enjoy the music and watch what the people are doing.

Don't feel as if you need to memorize what they are doing but how they move along with the beat. Are they moving their legs a lot? What about their arms. What are they doing with their heads.

If there are any particular songs that you hear that you really like, ask someone if they know who made it. If you can, see if you can find out from the DJ (disc jockey). Once you know, pick up music by that artist(s) and listen to him/her in your car and at home.

Now for me the key was to loosely think of how the people at the club moved, was it a little wild, more cool and subdued or somewhere in between. Then While listening to the music I would let it dictate how I moved but still withing the parameters of the genre of the club.

Be comfortable, let yourself go, don't over exaggerate your movements if it isn't necessary and more than anything, enjoy the music. The rest will follow.

 

[PEACEDJ]

I breakdance/hip hop and well how I started out was watching TV and I bought a video from Breakdance.com

If you have potential in power moving a flexibility dancing comes natually. Plus Breakdancing is always HOTT at clubs.

 

[Player_Supreme]

1. Look in your yellow pages under fitness/exercise and look for a dance studio.
2. check out local fitness clubs for hip/hop or salsa lessons...most offer these in todays market place.
3. start going to clubs and watching what people are doing and pick it up by imatation. You might wanna go where there are more of a black crowd to get the really good ideas....what most people don't realize is that in African children learn dance by watching and emmulating. A person will get out and show a move and others will try to copy it...it has been that way for centuries...that is why african americans can pick up dance real easily...certain motor receptors in the brain are still active and open.

 

[JohnGalt]

Watch Soul Train.

 

[Chaos-Knight]

put "fire ants" down your shirt and pants
Then Dance like you've never danced before...

(but use fast paced music so it looks natural )