
Explore dancing with musicality by guiding learners to focus on music, build five keys for comfortable musicality and expression, and practice rhythm through step patterns like left-right-left-right.
Here's a short example where you will see what it is to freestyle by paying attention and using everything that is given to you in a song. Important: this is not how you will start but rather how you can finish. This is just to show you various elements that we will see throughout this course
Explore the course structure, with three sections—rhythm, beats, and lyrics—each offering a training part and a final test, to be completed in at least a week with daily practice.
Maximize your progress by embracing interactivity and asking questions in the comment section, then record and share feedback videos privately on YouTube or via Google Drive.
Learn to change energy in dance by shifting from low energy to high energy while keeping the same speed, using a traffic light analogy and group rhythm.
Engage in practice to explore energy change through music, building a natural, musical dance flow. Align your movement with the music to express energy shifts and enhance musicality.
Explore fast-paced head nodding drills, transitioning between low and high tempo while maintaining energy and motion. Practice to master transitions, neck movement, and energy shifts across paces.
Practice the different paces to dance naturally with musicality. Learn to adapt your movement to varying paces and stay in harmony with the music.
Develop musicality by combining slow and fast sections in the same song, using a clap indicator for low pace and progressively increasing pace, practicing until it becomes second nature.
practice a self-guided test to evaluate how you dance naturally with musicality. refine rhythm and movement interpretation through independent assessment.
Practice switching paces to dance naturally with musicality, building expressive movement and fluid transitions that reflect your natural dancing style.
Learn to dance naturally with musicality by exploring three different paces, staying flexible, and avoiding staying on the same line to keep movement dynamic and expressive.
Explore what musicality means and how to add a twist to your breathing. Recap the normal rhythm and low bass to deepen your movement.
Objective is to let met know how was your experience so far and share questions or thoughts about what you learnt. Remember these are not lectures although the title is. This is an interactive class, and you will make yourself better by assessing your improvement, what's working for you and what's not ;)
Practice bass to align dance with musicality. Practice bass to maintain dance with musicality consistently.
Combine bass and clap sequences using on-screen indicators to hit four consecutive beats in time, mastering coordinated movement to hit both at once.
Explore counting and responding to extra beats and drum sounds beyond the bass and clap, pairing a surprised movement with a boom boom boom sequence, practicing patiently as sounds return.
Match daily habits to the beat, turning any action into a dance step. Rewatch to practice, aim beyond 6/10, 7/10, and prepare for the next lyrics training in musicality.
Objective is to let met know how was your experience so far and share questions or thoughts about what you learnt. Remember these are not lectures although the title is. This is an interactive class, and you will make yourself better by assessing your improvement, what's working for you and what's not ;)
Choreograph a movement-based dance to the first four bars of the lyrics, practicing lyric-driven steps to match the rap cadence.
Learn to perform the next four bars by repeating the same movement twice, focusing on simple steps and musicality rather than choreography details.
Balance with rhythm, catch the next beat or lyric, and use rewinding to get the lyrics right as you complete the lyrics section and look forward to the course conclusion.
Objective is to let met know how was your experience so far and share questions or thoughts about what you learnt. Remember these are not lectures although the title is. This is an interactive class, and you will make yourself better by assessing your improvement, what's working for you and what's not ;)
DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO DANCE NATURALLY AND CREATE YOUR OWN FREESTYLES?
You've probably attended dance classes where you learned:
-swaggy/trendy steps
-moves and choreographies
-the 5 6 7 8 counting system
Did it work?
No.
On the contrary, the more techniques you learn, the less creative you become.
And eventually, it doesn't look natural when you dance.
Before the counting system, the choreographies, and the steps, what a dancer MUST master is Musicality.
In simple words, musicality is how much you can hear from a song.
Because musicality gives you the raw material.
Without it, all the techniques in the world will be useless.
It would be like a painter without canvas...
He might have the best paintings in the world,
The most extraordinary brushes,
And even the most incredible talent.
Without canvas, he wouldn't get far.
It's the same for you.
You may be spending a lot of time crafting your technique, learning new steps, choreographies but,...
Without musicality , you'll reproduce somebody else's style rather than finding your own.
And, eventually, you'll feel awkward when you dance!
Yet, with the right method you could easily develop your own unique style, and even come up with sick freestyles of your own!
Because at the end of the day, what you want is:
Spot the different elements in a song
Match your movements to those elements
Create never-seen-before movements (because they're yours only!)
And freestyling on songs you don't know anything about!
That's exactly what I'm offering you to learn here in Dance Naturally With Musicality!
Each month, you'll get a new video (on top of the pre-existing ones) with the best advice and insights, to help you EXPRESS YOURSELF on your own unique way on the dancefloor!
We'll breakdown a different song each time to make sure you can apply your new skills right away!!
Remember: This course will not give you the moves. Rather, it will give you the ability to create your OWN moves.
P.S. As I will say numerous times in the videos, interaction is key in your progress. The community is here to help you, so comment and ask questions to keep the energy flowing!