Have you ever been discouraged when your new dance doesn’t look perfect right away? Or maybe you immediately use excuses like “too difficult for me”. 💁‍♀️Are you still waiting for a miracle that one day your dance level will magically allow you to dance anything you want?🤦‍♀️😫😫😫⁣⁣

I keep repeating that your first draft will never be perfect. And it SHOULDN’T BE!!!👉 If it’s easy to make it perfect right away, then you are just slacking and not working according to your actual level.💪⁣⁣

Regardless if you are creating your own new routine, or learning someone else’s, it will take multiple sessions to bring it into a decent shape. And simply running it again and again is NOT enough. 😳 So what to do?👇👇👇⁣⁣

Here is my strategy:⁣⁣

Practice 👉 Video record 👉 Watch 👉 Analyze mistakes 👉 WORK on mistakes 👉 Run the whole dance again 👉 Repeat from the beginning⁣⁣.

☝️The key point here is to WORK on the mistakes. Not just to acknowledge them in your mind, but actually stop and go though those weird arms positions ✔️, drill sharp hip drops ✔️, or simply ‘clean’ and memorize that combo ✔️. Whatever needs to be fixed must receive special attention prior to running the dance again. Only after this work is done, you are ready for a full run again, in order to see new mistakes, and new opportunities for improvements.😆 ⁣⁣

This video is from many years ago, but it never gets old. 😅 My process of learning and polishing choreo from Diana Gnatchenko.