6. Your 'bad' dancing is lack of familiarity with your own body and what it can do. Drills help shove connection into your subconscious. Do as many drills as you can handle without getting bored.
7. did i mention core strength because CORE STRENGTH IS IMPORTANT
8. Every daily-
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movement can be an exercise. Wash dishes from your core. Fold the laundry from your core. Keep your pelvis tucked in, your abs tight, your shoulders rolled back, your chest puffed. Be strong. Fold that laundry like superman. Turn the corner like a spring ready to release.
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9. Make faces when you dance, as part of the dance. Hold the faces steady, let them be extreme, stupid or terrifying.
10. Get a tutor, pay for a session after every 4-6 hours of your own practicing drills at home. If you're a fast learner, 3 months will transform you.
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11. Focus on CORE STRENGTH and technique (balance, turns, etc.), and focus on EXPRESSION (loosing the fear from your body, staying in touch with the music). These are more important than MOVES (memorizing a sequence of steps). However, MOVES are fun, so do that if you want.
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12. And remember - learning to dance should be fun. Stay in touch with the joy of improving a skill, and if it becomes a chore, change something, and do what you like. Just don't get stuck in a narrow movement space! Always be expanding and experimenting.
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13. and make sure you minimize the amount of time weight is dispersed across both your feet! You can check to see if your weight is dispersed by freezing, and then raising one foot off the ground. If your head moved, then your weight was dispersed.
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It's great to practice this when walking; when walking, minimize the amount of time your weight travels 'between' feet; let the transfer between one foot to another be *very short*. When extreme/just starting out, this can look like hopping or falling.
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i should make one!
but in leiu of that look at this jive: youtube.com/watch?v=TQeac9 its especially obvious with the side step at around 0:18, watch his weight shift *extremely* fast and smooth between feet
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OH FOUND EXAMPLE
in this clip: youtube.com/watch?v=P14Wyi
She walks on at 0:23 and it's prime. You can see she 'pushes' slightly onto each step and pauses once on the foot ever-so-briefly before the next step. The weight of her core is always leading in front of her feet
