hi guys Monika here, your dance teacher and today we'll talk about three things you
can do daily at home to become a better dancer. We can break down those things
into two categories category number one inspiration you have to be inspired to
that well you don't have to but if you want to be better at dancing it's good to
have some inspiration. If I'm not inspired I'm not going to do anything or
it will feel like I'm forcing myself to do something. Learning how to dance it's
a process that means it's repetitive that means it takes a while it means
sometimes you may not feel like you want to do and take the steps to become
better just so much easier when you inspired right
two things that inspire me and two things that I found out inspire my
students one is watching other people dance. This can be tricky but do you
have dancers maybe that you follow on Instagram on YouTube that when you see
them dance or like oh my god I want to be that person
I want to be Monika... watching those dance videos will help you identify what you're
into. dance-wise. What I mean by that even if maybe you would like to
become a better dancer maybe you'd like to just feel more comfortable with
dancing in public but you don't know what style of dance to start with. That's
the most common problem my students have, they want to dance they sign up for
a dance class, when I ask them is there any specific style
you'd like to learn they're like I guess whatever is easiest you know
that's not going to work it's okay not knowing right it's okay not knowing what
you want to learn but you don't want to force yourself into learning something
that you're not going to enjoy even if you don't know what you like I guarantee
you, immediately if you watch a video you will know what you don't like I'm a
dancer I've been a dancer pretty much all my
life do I like all styles of dance? for me personally a long time ago - movies
movies inspired me to actually join join a dance team and I was o l d, I was
already in college those 2 movies were HONEY and U GOT SERVED. I've seen them at
least 10 times each and then I kept on watching the best scenes hundreds of times
and learning the moves from there from the videos also what's important is that
don't compare yourself so much to people that you are watching every single
person that always repeat this and I'll keep repeating it: every single person
started where you are like nobody's born a dancer
yes some people are more inclined to learn, some people learn easier or faster
or they have good ears, then they get rhythm quicker but nobody's born with coordination
I don't think. That's a skill, that's something that has to be developed, you
don't have to really aspire to be like the dancer that you're watching
aspire to be better than what you are now which is probably not that great but
that's a good thing because then it means it's going to be easier for you to
be better than what you are now. You get it? you know that's like all right so get
inspired but don't get impatient. When you see an amazing dancer just know that
they practiced a ton to get where they are. Number two:
get inspired by music. I also started to dance because I love music so much
Find music that you like find out what music makes you want to move that's very
important I always repeat that if you don't like the song you're not going to
force yourself to look good dancing to that song. Only professional dancers do
that or should do that, like sometimes we have to dance and perform to a song
we're not really feeling but we have to fake it until we make it because it
still has to be entertaining to watch. When you're going to the club you don't
have to force yourself to dance to a song that you are not feeling or that
you don't even like, you'll never look like you're enjoying it you know it will
be fake so don't do that but find music that you are drawn to. The music that you
choose will dictate what style of dance you will like because think of it like that
if you enjoy hip-hop then you're going to most likely enjoy hip hop dancing.Maybe you
enjoy Latin music then Latin dancing it is right
Salsa, Bachata, Merengue - you have options, maybe you like gospel music... Is there a Gospel dance?
you know what's crazy is that sometimes all it takes is just one song so even if
my main style that I loved was hip-hop I heard Shakira and I started belly
dancing I heard what was it? Sean Paul and I started, I fell in love with dancehall
What was that song? it was like a, like an old song... Gasolina?
that song... and it made me fall in love with reggaeton just one song can change
everything so have an open mind, listen to a lot of music and that's how you'll
find what you like. Third and last thing that you can do to improve your
dance skills is basically to GRIND. now that one is a little bit more work because
you do actually have to practice but you cannot learn dance any other way but
through practicing so grinding and working on your skill level is the third basic
thing that you can do pretty much on a daily basis. Practicing you're getting
the movement into your body, your muscle movement memory is put to work, you're making
everything that you learn permanent so that's very very important if you want
to be a better freestyle dancer what you can do every day is even play just one
song and dance. that's practicing even if your movements are repetitive you still
are working you still are working on coordination, rhythm, feeling the
you know do it to a song that you like, maybe if you want to expand the bank of
movements that you have try to learn something new that you can then
incorporate into your freestyle. Maybe you're working on a routine maybe you want to get
better at choreography - practice counting the movements practice counting with
rhythm, practice the movement patterns that's how you become better and don't
forget that's a good tip also from time to time film yourself dancing just so you can
monitor the progress once you've seen how far you got this will motivate
you to practice even more. I know from experience my first videos I thought I
was a hot dancer, I look like crap so maybe one day I'll do a reaction video stay tuned and
please subscribe. So to sum up: to get inspired by watching other people dance, get inspired by
listening to music find music that you love and GRIND: practice practice practice. That is it for today you guys
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