Dance Ideas
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Freeform dance styles like ecstatic dance can be totally amazing for the discovery aspect! Dance alone or with a partner, the eclectic music might inspire you to move in ways you never have before. Or connect in new ways to yourself, to a patner or to your surrounding. Yup, that's one of the more hippy things I've ever said, but it's true. On this page I have some bullet point ideas on ways you can dance that I've come up with or taken from various workshop. Often I won't spell out what it means, becasue you interpret it how you want.
Principles
- All styls:
- Five levels: (1) air, (2) standing, (3) crouching, (4) kneeling, (5) floorwork. ........ (what are you ignoring)
- Circles: from any of your joints. ........ (start shoulders, wrists, knees, hips, spine, neck, turn turn in circles and figures of eight)
- Badass:
- Moonwalk ........ (MJ style)
- Woo woo:
- Breathe ........ (expand contract)
- Slow dance ........ (slow like molassus tai chi with exaggerated poses)
- Negative space ........ (dance around another person or object, wherever they don't occupy)
Dance Ideas
Solo Dance Ideas
- Stylish:
- Fight ........ (fighting movements, best for fast songs)
- Invisible Wall ........ (fighting movements, best for fast songs)
- Fun:
- Animal head ........ (make animal ears and pretend to be some animal, cuz why be so serious)
- Woo woo:
- Focus on a body part ........ (focus on your middle finger)
Partner Dance Ideas
- Fun:
- Pass the ball ........ (create a ball with your hands and throw it around, but then tranform the anything, can translate to many people)
- Woo woo:
- Energy flow ........ (imagine some form of enery, pass to another)
- Under, over and through ........ (pretty much ahve to have a conversation beforehand to, one person moves slowly, the other dance around them)
- Contact improve (never lose touch) ........ (always keep a point of touch)
- Eye gazing ........ (eye gazing with slow hands)
- Bounce the baby ........ (bounce)
- Primal animals ........ (flat out pretent to be predatory animals like lions and growl)
- Playful animals ........ (thing up any silly animal and act it out: monkey, snake, butterfly, worm)
- Lifts:
- Lifts ........ (wedding lift, fireman lift, back lift, piggy-back, on the shoulders, flip, hympicl, back to back)
Group Dance Ideas
- Wedding fun:
- Limbo ........ (enough said)
- Tunnel ........ (needs 4 people to start, for a standing tunnel and people go underneath)
- Conga ........ (enough said)
- Single Leader:
- Copy the leader ........ (two lines of people facing each other, and people in the midde mirror, everyone follows)
- Faceoff ........ (two lines of people facing each other, and people in the midde mirror, everyone follows)
- Woo woo:
- Hand circle ........ (all hold hands, mimic)
- Ameba ........ (just all rolling off each other, flowly music)
- Cuddle puddle ........ (not really dancing at this point!)
Misc Ideas
- Observe & Mimic
- Crawl
- Flowing Staccato Chaos Lyrical Stillness
Memorizing Ideas
When I was a youngster doing to clubs for the first time I would try to remember "Fight the Invisible Robot". In other words, I could dance like I was fighting or like there was an invisible object, like a ball or a wall, or just do robotic movements. It's funny that I picked that sentence - it was nice and short and maybe I couldn't remember anything longer. Maybe you can think of a fun acronym.
See Also
| Acknowledgements: Mostly Gabriel Francisco - I highly recommend his "Dance is Life" course. It was fun to see someone else has a collection of movement ideas, and so many of these are his! |
