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Arts & Humanities: Dancing: “Question: I have to come up with a cheerleading dance and I don't know any good songs that I like, I like the song Banga Banga by Austin Mahone?” plus 4 more

Arts & Humanities: Dancing: “Question: I have to come up with a cheerleading dance and I don't know any good songs that I like, I like the song Banga Banga by Austin Mahone?” plus 4 more


Question: I have to come up with a cheerleading dance and I don't know any good songs that I like, I like the song Banga Banga by Austin Mahone?

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 07:39 AM PDT

I have to come up with a cheerleading dance and I don't know any good songs that I like, I like the song Banga Banga by Austin Mahone?

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Question: How will it be to learn lyrical dance, easy or difficult?

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 06:29 AM PDT

How will it be to learn lyrical dance, easy or difficult?

I plan to start learning lyrical dance after I have a year of ballet training under my belt (and of course continue to take ballet classes in the meantime). Lyrical dance is a dance form that I have always wanted to learn.
However, I recently watched a lyrical dance performance on YouTube and evaluated that the dancer was very flexible and the particular dance demanded a lot of flexibility.
So I was wondering whether lyrical dance demands flexibility and would like to know of other features it demands. Will it be easy or hard to learn lyrical dance in general? Can any given person do lyrical dance, or just certain people?
I am not extremely flexible at the moment, although it might be that my future ballet training may change that before I start lyrical dance. Thanks!

Question: How to dance?

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 12:26 AM PDT

Listen carefully to the music you're dancing to and feel the rythm and dance in time with it! This is a very general question as I don't know what genre of dance you're referring to. But I'd say your key things to do are 1) dance to the rythm 2) it helps if you count and dance but obviously if your dancing in a club don't otherwise you might get a few strange stares haha 3) with practice, you'll get better and better 4) try and watch YouTube videos of dances because they can be very inspiring 5) find a good dance studio as you'll have a better chance of picking up how to dance there then on your own 6) don't give up! keep on at it and don't stop dancing

Question: When and how did you learn to dance?

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 07:53 PM PDT

I think the answer is in your question. You don't move limbs, you move your core and back, and the limbs follow. If you think about moving limbs your movements will be stiff and jerky.

Get a good comfortable balanced stance, hold your belly in slightly, relax, and move your spine. Don't count beats, put your headphones on and turn it up loud, and let your spine respond to the music.
Gradually involve your arms. Don't move an arm, let your arms be very relaxed, floppy like a rag doll, and let them just swing off your shoulders, then move and rotate your shoulders more so that your arm moves more. Think about sending balls of energy from your spine, out through your shoulder, through your upper arm, lower arm, wrist, hand, fingers, and out the tips of your fingers to hit a wall some six foot away. Paint the wall with the energy. Pull the energy back in through your fingers and back into your spine.

Feel how relaxed your hips can be. There are these amazing glistening ball joints and all you have to do is twitch a muscle to make your hips glide around on the ball joints. Shift your weight from one foot to another, without lifting your feet at first.

The hardest part to relax and move I reckon is the head. We are so conditioned to hold it up and rigid. A head is really heavy and we have incredible muscles supporting it. Training them to relax enough to move is difficult. Practice just rolling your head around. Do not let your head roll to the back while you are a beginner. Some say never. Just do shoulder to shoulder.

Don't worry about steps, just work on responding to music. Steps can come later.
Then a class might help you, although you could explore more free dance like Five Rhythms, Wave or Ecstatic dance. They will help break down any mental blocks you have.

Question: How did you learn to dance?

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 07:26 PM PDT

I've been dancing since before I could walk (or so my mum has told me). She'd sit me down in front of the TV and out on Top Of The Pops where I'd watch it and dance as I sat. It was basically me just flailing my arms about, and bopping up and down. I even had a favourite song: Believe by Cher. My mum had to buy the CD for me just to get me to sleep at night. As I learned to walk, I began moving and dancing more. I'd always want to move around (much to my mums annoyance). I began dancing on my own, while helping with the shopping or simply while walking along the street. I later took up Irish Dancing and competed aged 4. I moved onto Hip-Hop aged 8, competed and then started training in Contemporary aged 16 (my age now)

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