All dance classes start with a thorough warm-up, needed to be able to do the motions fully without harming ourselves. After this, we might focus on practicing certain steps a little extra, before we take on practicing an actual dance. To learn a dance, these things are taken into account:
Technique – how we do certain motions
Choreography – which motions we do and in which order
Presentation – the way we express ourselves
Music – what we dance to and in what style
Context – any symbolism, such as legends or stories that are told through the lyrics and motions
All this becomes easier, when we also dare to relate personally to what we’re doing. Finding our own correlated meaning, through our own emotions and experiences, makes for a better performance. Tuning in to my own memories of San Francisco thus, made it easier to dance Hawaiian Hula to this song:
More about my dancing can be found here.
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