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HOW TO BE A CLEANER DANCER?

HOW TO BE A CLEANER DANCER

Are you trying to be a cleaner dancer? I can help you!

While dance is an expression and not a military drill, being clean allows the audience to see and understand your movements better.

And having a good understanding of your execution will help you feel free and more expressive!

Here are some ways and tricks that will help you, how to become a cleaner dancer.

A clean dancer must do…

1. Developing body awareness

To be a clean dancer, you must develop a sense of awareness so that you are able to enact the imagination of the choreographers or those around you.

At all times, you should know where each part of your is placed, down to your fingertips.

It’s a good idea to take a step back and notice what your body is doing in relation to what you want it to do.

Are your toes pointing in or out? Fingers together or spread apart? Shoulders tensed or relaxed?

Take a look in the mirror and try to match the choreographer or fine-tune what picture you want to make.

2. Knowing your basic angles

There are certain body angles and positions that you will need to memorise because they are used often.

As you take more classes (especially foundation in styles and beginner classes), hitting these angles will become second nature.

If you’re newer to dancing, then drill the basic angles into your body so that it won’t be something you consciously have to pay attention to all the time.

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For example, 45 and 90-degree angles are always used, so get that into your system ASAP.

This will let you focus on other details that make up the move.

And come cleaning time, you won’t have to be cleaned as often because you already have a handle on the base of the moves.

3. Using your muscles

If your arms or any other body parts are loose, then you’re going to look like messy.

So use your muscles!

You should think of them as brakes for your movement that’ll let you freeze at a moment’s notice.

Tense up at the RIGHT moments to stick your pictures.

I’ve done exercises where I go through any pictures in a piece and flex my body at those points to try to develop muscle memory for each picture.

The more developed your muscles are, the better you will be at controlling your movement.

4. Defining your path of movement

To be a cleaner dancer, it’s critical that you think about the pathway of the movements.

When you look for directions on Google Maps, it’ll show you different ways of getting from point A to point B.

Yes, you’ll get to where you want to go in the end, but all these pathways look SUPER different.

So when you’re learning choreography and don’t feel like you’re doing it right, take a look at the path of your moves.

5. Learning to control your speed

Mastering timing will help your cleanliness like crazy.

Being able to move slow and take your time AND being able to move crazy fast can only translate well if you’re doing it cleanly.

And if you can’t do the moves properly at 1/10th of the speed, then there’s no way you can do it right in tempo. So start slow, first.

I like to take a piece and go through it a couple times really slowly, so I can really get the pictures right and understand how it feels in my body.

Then I speed it up in increments until I can do it in tempo.

This is especially helpful before you cast or do groups in class.

If you want to take it a step further, then learn some popping animation fundamentals!

Poppers have some of the craziest speed control.

6. Training for solid footwork

When you’re doing choreography or other hip hop styles, you want to be really grounded in your movements so that you’re not toppling over while you’re dancing.

You can’t have a strong tree without strong roots – and your feet and legs are the ones anchoring you to the floor as you’re dancing.

If you’re going to be wobbling while you’re trying to move around, then it’s likely that you won’t be able to do any of the other moves 100% correctly.

“Don’t skip leg day,” they say – and the same goes for dancing.

Stay grounded and balanced to better execute your moves!

Taking classes on India International Dance Institute is the perfect way to polish your cleanliness.

Choreographers not only teach each move in thorough detail, you get to practice each combo or section as many times as you need.

Do you have any activities your practice to help with cleanliness? Share them with the community by commenting below!

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Tapas Das: Tapas Das, a young entrepreneur of our times started TWIST N TURNS in 2005. A person who is kind, generous, creative and down to earth wanted to start his own one of a kind dance academy. According to him, Dance is a language of movements that involves space, time and the human body. He was born and grew up in Kolkata, the cultural hub of India. Being appreciated in the field of dance all his life, he is extremely talented. He has been dancing since the age of four. Once he finished his high school, he learned jazz/modern and contemporary dance. His horizons were broadened even more when he started dancing Bollywood with Beat Busters for 4 years, which then was the most upcoming dance crew in Kolkata. After that exposure, he studied how to be a dance teacher, which later started helping him impart his knowledge about dance. Thus, in 2005, with the help of family and friends, he started TWIST N TURNS. Starting with a mere number of 40 students, today TWIST N TURNS currently has over 500 students. Over the time Tapas has taught and performed all over the country. He has performed in cities such as Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Jhansi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Udaipur etc. He has been an active participant in the Salsa India Congress in the cities of Bangalore and Bombay, and he has also visited various International Salsa Congresses in Europe, namely in Berlin ,Singapore, Hong Kong,Dubai. He is been also trained recently at Broadway Dance Center (New York), Alvin Alley (New York) and Steps on Broadway (New York). He is not only a dancer or teacher. He is a successful choreographer and has coordinated various shows without difficulty in our country. His leadership skills are exceptional, thus he is where he stands today. His aim in life would be to become a dance educator. He wants to share his tremendous knowledge in the right way to the right people. He is also, simultaneously running other brands like Zumba Kolkata, Bollywood Studio ArtistWala.com and India International Dance Institute.