Widening your Movement Vocabulary
How to avoid being boring during your dance improvisation?🤔🤔👌
One of the biggest concerns that runs in dancers minds is: ‘Am I too boring? Too repetitive? Which other movement I can do here?’🤯😳
It’s good to worry about your audience’s experience, but those kinds of thoughts often take you out of the moment. They destroy the true connection to the music and often prevent from feeling or projecting any real emotions during the dance.
👉One of the ways to work on variety in your movements is OUTSIDE of improvisation, and it is 💁♀️learning as many choreographies and combos from other dancers as possible.
And not only learning the sequence, but actually drilling and polishing them.☝️This way this material stays in your body, in your muscle memory, and as a result increases your movement vocabulary. Then the next time you do an improvisation, your body will naturally ‘show up’ those combos/movements but in your own interpretation.👌
Of course, it takes time and practice, but for me it’s the surest way to enrich your dance, and with time and mixture of processed material also develop your own style in the future. 🤗😘❤️
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Music and choreo by Tito Seif
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Iana Komarnytska is a professional dancer, teacher, choreographer, and passionate content creator helping dancers navigate their dance lives.
She is a graduate from the professional dance program at York University (Canada), host of the Belly Dance Life podcast, creator of the Iana Dance Club, author of numerous articles, and winner of Star Bellydancer Canada 2014 among other international competitions.
Along with belly dance, Iana performs and teaches Persian Classical and Turkish Romani dancing. She is the first choreographer to start using Triple Isis wings, and since 2012 this is one of her style signatures.
If you are dancing to an unfamiliar song, or to a live drum solo improvisation, don’t try to predict what’s coming up. Just stay tuned to hear it and process through your body as fast as possible