I have been having a great time doing hip hop dancing classes. I have taken 3 semesters so far in the last 3 years. I am excited about growing and improving and finding my own voice to speak through with hip hop dancing. There is no one way to be a good hip hop dancer, the possibilities of unique expression are endless. Tutting can be done so many different ways from how you go fast or slow if you use sharp angles or noodle like curves. I think that by age 38 to 43 I might actually be pretty good at hip hop dancing, not great, but good, and I think that is a reachable goal that I can accomplish if I keep up with taking more classes and more dance workshops held in the area I will be living at. I love it and find it rather theraputic, spiritual, and lot's of fun!
If any of you reading this go to World OF Dance LA this year please say hello to me and tell me that you read my blogs or look at the art on my website I have linked to this site when you see me in attendance walking around the hip hop dancing convention. I am not to cool to talk to or meet new and interesting people, so do not be afraid about introducing yourself to me. There is not going to be to many white men in attendance in the crowd at the event, especially ones who are 32 with a full beard instead of only 17 years old with no facial hair. White guys are in the minority at the World of Dance hip hop dancing events. So I will not be hard to notice or find in attendance.
You are allowed to film the dancing at the convention that you see. As far as uploading it goes I think everyone is Ok and fine with it, but if you make money like google ad sense money on the video you might from my guess get into trouble of making money on someone else's act that you only filmed and did not perform or direct yourself. It is probably better to play it safe and not make the advertising money on your uploaded videos you do not own the creative content for yourself. I personally thought that World of Dance San Diego was 1,000 pounds more awesome than Comic Con of this year. I greatly enjoyed myself and had a much more fantastic time at world of dance this October than I had at comic con in July of this year! You just can't compare the two. World of Dance is so much more thrilling and fun to attend. The shopping for collectibles or art books and window shopping for cute girls to meet and talk to might be better at Comic Con but their were a few fairly cute women at World of Dance to that I saw, and the world of dance women if they performed on stage are talented performing artists and not just good looks without having other things interesting about them going on in their life. The average person is more urban or tough many of them at the hip hop dance concert but unless someone was a hot head with a chip on his shoulder to start with, nobody is going to mess with you. And if they do go get security. Everyone I saw at world of dance loved performing and being part of the community of dancers than out to prove they are the tough ass person to you or anyone else. Hey at comic con they had the guy from Hall H in 2010 who tried to take out another mans eyeball with his click pen over who sat in a seat the strapping young man jock secret closet nerd wanted to fight over. He was just one unstable ticking time bomb about to go off anyways, he was not your typical comic con attendee trying to stab his way to the best seats in the room with a ball point pen. I hope comic con does not let him back or he will for sure go nuts all over again in a future year if he is that kind of crazy inside his head. I don't know if it was because this dance we learned did not have any spins which if done to often in one class can make me dizzy or get vertigo, but somehow in hip hop dance class today "I felt it" and I just went for it. a guy i know formally in class told me this week, "I saw you dancing out there!" and last week he told me, "I see you dancing in class you are pretty good at it" If someone else can see the joy and love and energy I bring into my hip hop dancing I do and and I myself am into the movements or the dancing and "feel alive and sensational and in the moment and happy thinking about good things like winning over a girl without thinking of any one girl I admire and have a crush on in particular while dancing."
Kind of like in Karate classes that I took as a teenager or young adult where I thought about hitting my bullies in the face or chest with each and every kick and punch combination we were practicing in the air against an invisible opponent who I fantasized I was finally getting revenge on for harassing and bullying me around all the time. So today in hip hop dancing class I think I had my best class of dancing ability ever and I was not even thinking about Miniature horses, Savannah cats, my dream house and horse ranch property and not even dancing for the woman of my dreams who if she saw me could see my dancing for her as a sign of love and affection through movement meant as a compliment for her from me...Not today, no sir! Just dancing with high energy because I wanted to feel it and put myself into it and become part of the dancing and the music and not have any self conscious reservations or beat myself up in any way about anything in class that I messed up on a dance move or two or if I brought my near constant fears worries and concerns about girls and school homework with me into dancing class |
I'm not very good at dancing, but I get a real kick out of hip hop dancing classes! I like it when I feel confident in myself moving my arms, legs, and body around while dancing and not being self conscious just having lots of fun and a good time Archives
February 2014
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