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Top 5 Tips To Become A Better Freestyle Dancer

Posted on 19. Nov, 2007 by chopper in home

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Remember in one of my previous posts when i talked about becoming a better hip hop dancer? One of the tips was to practice freestyling. I think this is the most important element in my opinion. I love to freestyle. It just makes me feel so good. Freestyling is like a dancer’s personal fingerprint because freestyle dance displays your own unique style of dancing. At least for the real freestylers out there. Some people just take what they learn from other people’s hip hop dance class and put it together to make up their freestyle. To me that is not what freestyle dancing is. Freestyle dance no matter what your style, is being able to turn on the music and just let go of what you learned in class or what you saw on tv, and just letting your inner self shine. How do you think different styles of dance where created? They were created by someone turning on a certain kind of music and just letting out what they felt on the inside and Voila! Ballet was created! Hip hop was created, salsa was created etc….. oh yea and the Soldier boy LOL. SO yes being able to freestyle is important to the evolution of dance. I know you’re saying Freestyle dancing is not easy. Well that’s what I’m here for, to help you!

Here Are The Top 5 Ways To Become A Better Freestyle Dancer

1. Don’t Care What You Look Like- When it come to freestyling you can’t be insecure about yourself and your moves. It also doesn’t matter what you do– its how you do it! Practice on your own until you gain more confidence to freestyle in front of other people.

2. Listen- Pay attention to the music. Remember, it’s you and the music so really focus on the music. Let the music lead you. Close your eyes and search for each element that makes up the track and play around with the different sounds.

3. Know No Boundaries- There are no rules to freestyle. You can do any moves you want. You can add in ballet, hip hop, jazz or whatever you’re feeling at that moment. You can do whatever you want unless you are in a freestyle competition then some rules may apply. Be expressive. Smile but don’t do the stank face it is not pleasant lol. You want people to enjoy watching you you don’t want them to be wondering if somebody farted in here lol. Just have fun and the people watching you will too!

4. Take Your Time- Please Please take you time. You don’t want to give it all you got when you first start. You want to build up to your best moves. If you don’t take your time you won’t last very long. Don’t force the moves. Take your time and let them come to you.

5. Be In The Moment- Try not to think so much freestyling is a spontanious thing. Don’t think about what you’re going to do next or what you did the last time. Freestyle is supposed to be different every time. Let it flow off the top of your head.

Here is my favorite video of myself fresstlying. I really was in the zone by the end. The music took me to some places that i never been before. Notice that I added different styles into my freestyle but my main style is Hip hop but you can see some ballet modern etc…. Also notice how I play with the music and the words at different time. Then look at my face I’m really expressing the music not only through my body but my face as well. You just have to let go but it takes practice! practice! practice!

If you like what you see please feel free to leave me a comment.

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