Category: Dance
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House Dance Analysis Homework
Was given a task to analyze some of my favorite dancers and attempt to articulate what specifically it is about their dance that inspires me. Although there are two more dancers I’d like to analyze, I’ll start with one of my favorites: Yugson. Over next few days, will update this page with some others. Yugson…
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1:1 Dance questionnaire
Below are some questions (along with my answers) asked by Francesa in preparation for our upcoming 1:1 dance private scheduled this Friday. Also included a couple of my favorite dance clips that inspire me.
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Dance, discomfort and making mistakes
Lots of dance activities going on lately and wanted to take a moment to reflect on the journey. Choreography volunteer as a dancer for video shoot promotion Last week, Francesa messaged me over Instagram, re-sharing an Instagram story, where Vi (an elite dancer from Japan currently located in London, teaching House and Locking and Hip-Hop)…
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London House Dance Workshop Summary
I attended a house dance workshop lead by Samantha Mavinga. The workshop took place in London last Sunday on May 25th and ran for 3 hours and though I’ve attended other workshops in the past, this one felt particularly special: Exercises revolving around the “Shuffle” movement We started the workshop with a breathing exercise, and…
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On Practicing Footwork
Very rarely, even after 2 years of dancing house, do I throw in footwork heavy dance moves like heel toe or farmer. However, I’ve recently been motivated for forward for several reasons: The heel toe practice was inspired by watching the following YouTube tutorial What I like about the above YouTube tutorial is the way…
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Tuesday House Dance Training Recap (May 13, 2025)
Who attended? Elena, Aubrey, Jimmy, Alex What went well? I really liked this exercise I came up with, where each person chooses a rhythm in their own mind, danced their rhythm, then ever other person in the group attempts to guess their rhythm. This was fun, challenging, and engaging. Perhaps next time increase difficulty by…
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An analytical mind in the context of dance – friend or foe? Perhaps both?
These days, I’m learning how to work with this vessel, my body. I’m constantly weighing the balance between acceptance and change and generally speaking, I sometimes tend to over-index on changing myself (in spirit of growth). In spirit of leveraging the way I am wired, I’m practicing leveraging my analytical mind in the context of…
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Juste Debout: 1 month of training for 1 minute of dancing
Tomorrow, I compete as a dancer in the infamous international street style dance competition — Juste Debout — and for the past 1 month, my 2 vs 2 partner (Aubrey) and I been consistently training together. Every week her and carved out 1.5 hours, time spent in a studio practicing. And now, all this comes to…
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Friday night farmer
The house dance farmer move is one that eludes me. I’m about 1.5 years into my house dance journey and this move in particular is one that I both struggle to achieve both the look and the feeling. Because of this, the farmer rarely makes an appearance in my freestyle rounds and when it does,…
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House Dance Training Log – January 04, 2025
First training of 2025. In a separate post, I’ll go over one of my 2025 goals but in short: participate in the prelims of summer dance forever 2026! That is, 1.5 years from now, I’d like to stand up on that beautiful stage and be prepared both mentally, physically, and emotionally. Summary Motivational quote on…
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Styling arms in house dance
This morning, I re-watched a video that I recorded the night before, while practicing dancing some house dance. And what stood out to me the most was not my footwork, but my arms. In particular, something seemed “off” about the positioning of my fingers as well as the angle in my arms. Given arms is…