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Now that Tumblr’s video player finally works, I wanted to upload this here. (This HD player’s surprisingly good quality) This was my short film that I spent forever on. Please don’t remove my credits, thanks~!
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here’s a step-by-step process of how I put this together
I want this to turn into a feature length film, that would be so cool!
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ABUSE
Information
Love Is Respect (Digital Abuse)
Love Is Respect (Emotional/Verbal Abuse)
Love Is Respect (Financial Abuse)
Love Is Respect (Physical Abuse)
Love Is Respect (Sexual Abuse)
Love Is Respect (Stalking)
Help Guide
Coping
Caring for yourself
Domestic abuse
Chat Rooms
Survivors Chat
Fort Refuge
Pandy’s
ADD/ADHD
Information
Help Guide
Attention Span Test
Attention Quiz
Concentration Quiz
Coping
Coping Tips for Attention Deficit Disorder
12 Best Tips for Coping with ADHD
50 Tips On The Management of Adult Attention Deficit
Medication
ADHD Medication Chart: Compare Drugs for ADD and ADHD
Drugs Used to Treat ADHD/ADD
ADD/ADHD Medications: Are ADHD Drugs Right for You
ADHD Medication Side Effects, Drug Types, Precautions
ADDICTION
Information
Help Guide (Alcohol & Drugs)
Half of Us (Alcohol & Drugs)
Coping and Recovery
Tools of Recovery: Addiction Coping Skills
5 Ways to Deal With Urges and Cravings
After Rehab: 5 Ways for Addicts to Cope
Addiction Recovery
Coping With Urges
Dealing With Cravings
ANGER
Coping
strategies to keep anger at bay
Anger management: 10 tips to tame your temper
Anger Management: Tips and Techniques
Feeling Angry
Controlling Anger — Before It Controls You
Dealing With Anger
How To Cope With Anger
Anger management: What works and what doesn’t
Ten Commandments of Anger Regulation
ANXIETY
Information
Anxiety Quiz
Social Anxiety Test
What are your stress triggers?
Coping Skills Quiz
Anxiety disorders explained
Help Guide (Anxiety Attacks & Anxiety Disorder)
Understanding and managing anxiety
learn more about anxiety
Anxiety Self-Assessment
Help Guide (General Anxiety Disorder)
Help Guide (Social Anxiety Disorder & Social Phobia)
Explanation of anxiety and self help tips
Coping
a list of stress relievers
Identifying and Managing Anxiety
11 Assorted Anxiety Tips for Anxiety Sufferers
How to work through feelings of isolation
Tips and tricks for dealing with anxiety
Anti-stress breathing tips
How to stay under control with severe social anxiety
Coping with social anxiety
Managing Stress
how to help a friend with anxiety
Help Guide (Therapy)
Half of Us
Job interviews and social anxiety
Dealing with anxiety
Coping with test anxiety
Tips for flying anxiety
Grounding techniques
More grounding techniques
Even more grounding techniques
Mindfulness
Belly breathing
Living with anxiety
Social anxiety disorder self help tips.
Coping with flashbacks
What anxious racing thoughts are like for me
Using a thought diary
Panic Attacks
How to handle panic attacks
Exploring and coping with panic attacks
10 Rules for Coping with Anxiety and Panic
Tips to cope with panic attacks
Rules for coping with anxiety and panic
Understanding and coping with panic attacks
Understanding and helping panic attacks and panic disorders
Help Guide (Panic Attacks & Panic Disorder)
Coping with panic attacks workbook
Rules for coping with panic
Panic attack workbook 2
Interactives
Emotional baggage check
The Dawn Room
The quiet place
The thoughts room
Stress Analyst
cloudflowing
imagination
planetarium
weavesilk
calm
make sand art online
lifeinneon
dolldivine
barcinski-jeanjean
rainymood
do nothing for 2 minutes
stars
Muscle Relaxation
Mood chart
Medication
Help Guide (Anxiety Medicine)
Common Medications for Anxiety Disorders
Guidelines for Medication Use
Chat Rooms
HealthfulChat
Phobics Awareness
Healing Well
Anxiety Space
BIPOLAR DISORDER
Information
Help Guide (Signs and Symptoms)
Half of Us
Bipolar Depression Quiz
hypomania
Coping
Bipolar disorder and self-help
Living with bipolar disorder
How to deal with bipolar disorder without medication
10 ways to cope with bipolar disorder
Coping skills
Help Guide (Self Help)
Bipolar Support tumblr
Medication
Help Guide (Bipolar Disorder Medication Guide)
Help Guide (Treatment)
Chat Rooms
HealthfulChat
Bipolar World
Healing Well
DEPRESSION
Information
depression information
Depression Infographic
Help Guide (Depression: Signs, Symptoms, Causes & Help)
Help Guide (Teenage Depression: A Guide for Parents)
Half of Us
Depression Quiz
Coping
How to cope with depression
How to cope with depression 1
Natural depression treatments
Ways to deal with depression/stress
Tips to help overcome loneliness
10 Tips on How to Work Through Feelings of Social Isolation
8 Tips to Overcome Loneliness
Ways to deal with depression/stress
having a bad day?
Make a comfort box
10 Things to Do When You Feel Like Crap
how to find a new normal in the middle of depression
you are not alone in the way you think you are
reasons to stay alive
how to stop trying to think yourself into happiness and actually arrive there
cheer me up
Help Guide (Dealing with Depression)
Help Guide (Helping Someone with Depression)
Medication
What to expect with antidepressants
Finding the right anti-depressant
Chat Room
HealthfulChat
Healing Well
EATING DISORDERS
Recovery
281 Reasons to Recover
Eating Disorders and Emotional Eating Test
Relapse Prevention
Bloating, Indigestion, & Feeling too full
Why You Must Eat
Learning to Love Your Body
Tips to Stop Restricting
Dealing With Weight Gain
10 Steps to Bulimia Recovery Workbook
Coping with Exercise Addiction
Tips to help with bulimia recovery
Help Guide (Emotional Eating)
Help Guide (Binge Eating)
Help Guide (Bulimia)
Help Guide (Helping Someone With an Eating Disorder)
Help Guide (Treatment and Recovery)
Stop Hating Your Body
Body Positive Zone
Self Care 101
self esteem
30 day self esteem challenge
developing positive self esteem
learning-to-love-yourself
Something Fishy
Ways of coping with eating disordered behaviors
The addiction help center
FRIENDS WITH ILLNESS
How to deal/talk with bipolar and depressed people
What to do when your friend is talking about suicide
What to do if someone you know is overdosing
What to do if your friend is hurting themselves
How to help someone who is suicidal
here’s what you tell someone who wants to commit suicide
tips for looking after someone with depression
Friends with metal illness?
What to do when someone is suicidal
Help Guide (Helping Someone with Depression)
GENERAL RESOURCES
Feelings Wheel
PsychForums
Psych Central
Lets Recover Together
How to find a Support Group
DailyStrength
GRIEF AND LOSS
Help Guide (Coping with a Breakup or Divorce)
Help Guide (Coping with Grief & Loss)
Help Guide (Coping with Pet Loss)
Help Guide (Supporting a Grieving Person)
Help Guide (The Five Stages of Grief)
HOTLINES
Crisis Text Line: Text “SUPPORT” to 741741
Crisis Call Center Call 1-800-273-8255 (24/7) Text ANSWER to 839863 (24/7)
Thursday’s Child Call 1-800-872-5437 (24/7)
The Trevor Project Call 866-488-7386 (24/7)
National Safe Place Text SAFE and your current location to the number 69866
National Runaway Safeline Call 1-800-786-2929 (24/7)
National Domestic Violence Hotline Call 1-800-799-7233 (24/7)
MEDITATION
Tips to Start Meditating
8 Ways to Make Meditation Easy and Fun
18 Minute Guided Meditation: Blissful Deep Relaxation
1 Hour Universal Mind Meditation
Guided Meditation for Sleep and Good Dreams
Guided Meditation and Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Guided Relaxation
Foundations in Flow Yoga Class
Heart Opening 30min Yoga Class
10min Shoulder Yoga Routine
9min Yoga Breathing Exercise (Pranayama)
Kundalini Yoga Breathing Exercises (3 min)
Yoga Poses
OCD
Information
Specific Symptoms of OCD
Distinguishing OCD From Other Conditions
The Course of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
How do Obsessive Compulsive People Think?
Coping and Treatment
Natural Treatment Options
Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Additional Treatment Options for OCD
Residential Treatment for OCD
Medications for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
A New Relationship to Your Obsessions
How to Find Help for OCD
OCD: Exposure Therapy Versus Medication
Cognitive Therapy for OCD
Chat Rooms
HealthfulChat
OCD-UK
PERFECTIONISM
Information
Perfectionism Resources
Perfectionism - a double-edged sword
Type-A Personality Quiz
Perfectionism Test
Procrastination Test
Perfectionism: the road to failure
perfectionism and procrastination
Coping
How to Overcome Perfectionism
LEARN TO MANAGE PERFECTIONISM
How to Overcome Perfectionism & Procrastination
Perfectionism - Stress Management
10 Steps To Conquer Perfectionism
perfectionists coping with failure
PTSD
Information
Help Guide (Traumatic Stress)
Help Guide (PTSD)
Help Guide (Emotional & Psychological Trauma)
Mental Help
PTSD Infographic
Understanding PTSD
What is PTSD?
Coping
Coping with flashbacks
Self Help Strategies for PTSD
Coping with Traumatic Stress Reactions
Post-Traumatic Stress - Self-help Guide
Understanding and Coping with PTSD
Coping with PTSD
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Information
Schizophrenia: What’s in my head?
Help Guide
schizophrenia
Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Types of Schizophrenia
Causes of Schizophrenia
Coping
Living with Schizophrenia
Coping With Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia Coping and Recovery
Schizophrenia: Coping with Delusions and Hallucinations
Paranoid schizophrenia Coping and support
Treatment
An Introduction to the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Treatment of Schizophrenia
Drugs to Treat Schizophrenia
Common Drugs and Medications to Treat Schizophrenia
Treating Schizophrenia Successfully
SELF-HARM
Cut something that’s not real skin
Half of Us
Help Guide
Recover Your Life
Self-Injury Outreach & Support
How to care for cuts
Resisting cutting
25 ways to avoid self injury and prevent self harm
Tips to help stop cutting
99 Coping Skills: Things to do Instead of Cutting
What to do when someone sees
How to fade/cover scars
Alternatives For Cutting 1
Alternatives For Cutting 2
Alternatives For Cutting 3
Alternatives For Cutting 4
Alternatives For Cutting 5
SELF-LOVE
how to stop putting yourself down
Self confidence
how to improve your self-esteem
How to be ok with yourself
tips on self-love
Confidence
Learn to love yourself
when told you are not pretty
emergency compliment
lessons for self-love
SUICIDE
Coping with Suicidal Thought
What to do when someone is suicidal
How to help someone who is suicidal
here’s what you tell someone who wants to commit suicide
Help Guide (Suicide Prevention)
Help Guide (Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts & Feelings)
THERAPY
how to get free therapy
Getting a Therapist - a brief step-by-step
Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Therapist or Counsellor?
50 Signs of Good Therapy
50 Warning Signs of Questionable Therapy
This masterpost needs so many more notes. You might save someone’s life, or make their day, or you can turn their life around by showing them this. When I’m not so sick, I’m going over the links I need because this is hella helpful right now.
ABUSE
Information
Love Is Respect (Digital Abuse)
Love Is Respect (Emotional/Verbal Abuse)
Love Is Respect (Financial Abuse)
Love Is Respect (Physical Abuse)
Love Is Respect (Sexual Abuse)
Love Is Respect (Stalking)
Help Guide
Coping
Caring for yourself
Domestic abuse
Chat Rooms
Survivors Chat
Fort Refuge
Pandy’s
ADD/ADHD
Information
Help Guide
Attention Span Test
Attention Quiz
Concentration Quiz
Coping
Coping Tips for Attention Deficit Disorder
12 Best Tips for Coping with ADHD
50 Tips On The Management of Adult Attention Deficit
Medication
ADHD Medication Chart: Compare Drugs for ADD and ADHD
Drugs Used to Treat ADHD/ADD
ADD/ADHD Medications: Are ADHD Drugs Right for You
ADHD Medication Side Effects, Drug Types, Precautions
ADDICTION
Information
Help Guide (Alcohol & Drugs)
Half of Us (Alcohol & Drugs)
Coping and Recovery
Tools of Recovery: Addiction Coping Skills
5 Ways to Deal With Urges and Cravings
After Rehab: 5 Ways for Addicts to Cope
Addiction Recovery
Coping With Urges
Dealing With Cravings
ANGER
Coping
strategies to keep anger at bay
Anger management: 10 tips to tame your temper
Anger Management: Tips and Techniques
Feeling Angry
Controlling Anger — Before It Controls You
Dealing With Anger
How To Cope With Anger
Anger management: What works and what doesn’t
Ten Commandments of Anger Regulation
ANXIETY
Information
Anxiety Quiz
Social Anxiety Test
What are your stress triggers?
Coping Skills Quiz
Anxiety disorders explained
Help Guide (Anxiety Attacks & Anxiety Disorder)
Understanding and managing anxiety
learn more about anxiety
Anxiety Self-Assessment
Help Guide (General Anxiety Disorder)
Help Guide (Social Anxiety Disorder & Social Phobia)
Explanation of anxiety and self help tips
Coping
a list of stress relievers
Identifying and Managing Anxiety
11 Assorted Anxiety Tips for Anxiety Sufferers
How to work through feelings of isolation
Tips and tricks for dealing with anxiety
Anti-stress breathing tips
How to stay under control with severe social anxiety
Coping with social anxiety
Managing Stress
how to help a friend with anxiety
Help Guide (Therapy)
Half of Us
Job interviews and social anxiety
Dealing with anxiety
Coping with test anxiety
Tips for flying anxiety
Grounding techniques
More grounding techniques
Even more grounding techniques
Mindfulness
Belly breathing
Living with anxiety
Social anxiety disorder self help tips.
Coping with flashbacks
What anxious racing thoughts are like for me
Using a thought diary
Panic Attacks
How to handle panic attacks
Exploring and coping with panic attacks
10 Rules for Coping with Anxiety and Panic
Tips to cope with panic attacks
Rules for coping with anxiety and panic
Understanding and coping with panic attacks
Understanding and helping panic attacks and panic disorders
Help Guide (Panic Attacks & Panic Disorder)
Coping with panic attacks workbook
Rules for coping with panic
Panic attack workbook 2
Interactives
Emotional baggage check
The Dawn Room
The quiet place
The thoughts room
Stress Analyst
cloudflowing
imagination
planetarium
weavesilk
calm
make sand art online
lifeinneon
dolldivine
barcinski-jeanjean
rainymood
do nothing for 2 minutes
stars
Muscle Relaxation
Mood chart
Medication
Help Guide (Anxiety Medicine)
Common Medications for Anxiety Disorders
Guidelines for Medication Use
Chat Rooms
HealthfulChat
Phobics Awareness
Healing Well
Anxiety Space
BIPOLAR DISORDER
Information
Help Guide (Signs and Symptoms)
Half of Us
Bipolar Depression Quiz
hypomania
Coping
Bipolar disorder and self-help
Living with bipolar disorder
How to deal with bipolar disorder without medication
10 ways to cope with bipolar disorder
Coping skills
Help Guide (Self Help)
Bipolar Support tumblr
Medication
Help Guide (Bipolar Disorder Medication Guide)
Help Guide (Treatment)
Chat Rooms
HealthfulChat
Bipolar World
Healing Well
DEPRESSION
Information
depression information
Depression Infographic
Help Guide (Depression: Signs, Symptoms, Causes & Help)
Help Guide (Teenage Depression: A Guide for Parents)
Half of Us
Depression Quiz
Coping
How to cope with depression
How to cope with depression 1
Natural depression treatments
Ways to deal with depression/stress
Tips to help overcome loneliness
10 Tips on How to Work Through Feelings of Social Isolation
8 Tips to Overcome Loneliness
Ways to deal with depression/stress
having a bad day?
Make a comfort box
10 Things to Do When You Feel Like Crap
how to find a new normal in the middle of depression
you are not alone in the way you think you are
reasons to stay alive
how to stop trying to think yourself into happiness and actually arrive there
cheer me up
Help Guide (Dealing with Depression)
Help Guide (Helping Someone with Depression)
Medication
What to expect with antidepressants
Finding the right anti-depressant
Chat Room
HealthfulChat
Healing Well
EATING DISORDERS
Recovery
281 Reasons to Recover
Eating Disorders and Emotional Eating Test
Relapse Prevention
Bloating, Indigestion, & Feeling too full
Why You Must Eat
Learning to Love Your Body
Tips to Stop Restricting
Dealing With Weight Gain
10 Steps to Bulimia Recovery Workbook
Coping with Exercise Addiction
Tips to help with bulimia recovery
Help Guide (Emotional Eating)
Help Guide (Binge Eating)
Help Guide (Bulimia)
Help Guide (Helping Someone With an Eating Disorder)
Help Guide (Treatment and Recovery)
Stop Hating Your Body
Body Positive Zone
Self Care 101
self esteem
30 day self esteem challenge
developing positive self esteem
learning-to-love-yourself
Something Fishy
Ways of coping with eating disordered behaviors
The addiction help center
FRIENDS WITH ILLNESS
How to deal/talk with bipolar and depressed people
What to do when your friend is talking about suicide
What to do if someone you know is overdosing
What to do if your friend is hurting themselves
How to help someone who is suicidal
here’s what you tell someone who wants to commit suicide
tips for looking after someone with depression
Friends with metal illness?
What to do when someone is suicidal
Help Guide (Helping Someone with Depression)
GENERAL RESOURCES
Feelings Wheel
PsychForums
Psych Central
Lets Recover Together
How to find a Support Group
DailyStrength
GRIEF AND LOSS
Help Guide (Coping with a Breakup or Divorce)
Help Guide (Coping with Grief & Loss)
Help Guide (Coping with Pet Loss)
Help Guide (Supporting a Grieving Person)
Help Guide (The Five Stages of Grief)
HOTLINES
Crisis Text Line: Text “SUPPORT” to 741741
Crisis Call Center Call 1-800-273-8255 (24/7) Text ANSWER to 839863 (24/7)
Thursday’s Child Call 1-800-872-5437 (24/7)
The Trevor Project Call 866-488-7386 (24/7)
National Safe Place Text SAFE and your current location to the number 69866
National Runaway Safeline Call 1-800-786-2929 (24/7)
National Domestic Violence Hotline Call 1-800-799-7233 (24/7)
MEDITATION
Tips to Start Meditating
8 Ways to Make Meditation Easy and Fun
18 Minute Guided Meditation: Blissful Deep Relaxation
1 Hour Universal Mind Meditation
Guided Meditation for Sleep and Good Dreams
Guided Meditation and Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Guided Relaxation
Foundations in Flow Yoga Class
Heart Opening 30min Yoga Class
10min Shoulder Yoga Routine
9min Yoga Breathing Exercise (Pranayama)
Kundalini Yoga Breathing Exercises (3 min)
Yoga Poses
OCD
Information
Specific Symptoms of OCD
Distinguishing OCD From Other Conditions
The Course of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
How do Obsessive Compulsive People Think?
Coping and Treatment
Natural Treatment Options
Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Additional Treatment Options for OCD
Residential Treatment for OCD
Medications for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
A New Relationship to Your Obsessions
How to Find Help for OCD
OCD: Exposure Therapy Versus Medication
Cognitive Therapy for OCD
Chat Rooms
HealthfulChat
OCD-UK
PERFECTIONISM
Information
Perfectionism Resources
Perfectionism - a double-edged sword
Type-A Personality Quiz
Perfectionism Test
Procrastination Test
Perfectionism: the road to failure
perfectionism and procrastination
Coping
How to Overcome Perfectionism
LEARN TO MANAGE PERFECTIONISM
How to Overcome Perfectionism & Procrastination
Perfectionism - Stress Management
10 Steps To Conquer Perfectionism
perfectionists coping with failure
PTSD
Information
Help Guide (Traumatic Stress)
Help Guide (PTSD)
Help Guide (Emotional & Psychological Trauma)
Mental Help
PTSD Infographic
Understanding PTSD
What is PTSD?
Coping
Coping with flashbacks
Self Help Strategies for PTSD
Coping with Traumatic Stress Reactions
Post-Traumatic Stress - Self-help Guide
Understanding and Coping with PTSD
Coping with PTSD
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Information
Schizophrenia: What’s in my head?
Help Guide
schizophrenia
Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Types of Schizophrenia
Causes of Schizophrenia
Coping
Living with Schizophrenia
Coping With Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia Coping and Recovery
Schizophrenia: Coping with Delusions and Hallucinations
Paranoid schizophrenia Coping and support
Treatment
An Introduction to the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Treatment of Schizophrenia
Drugs to Treat Schizophrenia
Common Drugs and Medications to Treat Schizophrenia
Treating Schizophrenia Successfully
SELF-HARM
Cut something that’s not real skin
Half of Us
Help Guide
Recover Your Life
Self-Injury Outreach & Support
How to care for cuts
Resisting cutting
25 ways to avoid self injury and prevent self harm
Tips to help stop cutting
99 Coping Skills: Things to do Instead of Cutting
What to do when someone sees
How to fade/cover scars
Alternatives For Cutting 1
Alternatives For Cutting 2
Alternatives For Cutting 3
Alternatives For Cutting 4
Alternatives For Cutting 5
SELF-LOVE
how to stop putting yourself down
Self confidence
how to improve your self-esteem
How to be ok with yourself
tips on self-love
Confidence
Learn to love yourself
when told you are not pretty
emergency compliment
lessons for self-love
SUICIDE
Coping with Suicidal Thought
What to do when someone is suicidal
How to help someone who is suicidal
here’s what you tell someone who wants to commit suicide
Help Guide (Suicide Prevention)
Help Guide (Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts & Feelings)
THERAPY
how to get free therapy
Getting a Therapist - a brief step-by-step
Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Therapist or Counsellor?
50 Signs of Good Therapy
50 Warning Signs of Questionable Therapy
This masterpost needs so many more notes. You might save someone’s life, or make their day, or you can turn their life around by showing them this. When I’m not so sick, I’m going over the links I need because this is hella helpful right now.
FREESTYLE 101: Learn How to Freestyle Dance
Freestyle is about a mentality!
The moves you do, don’t matter, it’s how you do it and how you interact with the music.
In reality, dance should be the visual representation of music. If someone were to draw what the music sounded like, they would be drawing what your freestyle looks like.
Things that help me:
-You have to understand that musicality is the most important thing. If you understand what is going on in the music, your dance will not yield the results you may desire. Really spend time listening to a great variety of music and begin to pick it apart. A majority of people just listen to music straight-on, but in reality, music in in MANY different layers. The more you can pick apart the layers, the more options you have to articulate with your body, which can really set you apart from your peers.
-Focus on some kind of emotion and try to show that through your dance. For example, if you focused on something like fear or anger you may have more aggressive movements
OR
-think of portraying a certain character, and try to get into that character’s mind and somehow express their movements. If I was a ninja I would have quick, agile movements while still exercising great stealth.
-You’ve heard many times, but technique is essential. No matter how good your musicality is, you don’t want your dancing to look sloppy because of poor technique. Literally practice your technique for about 50% of the time you practice. Good technique + good musicality = the key to really good freestyling.
-You need to have your own distinct style. People don’t like to watch everybody do the same exact thing. When you consider dancing, there are tons of styles such as, tango, waltz, ballet, hip hop, jazz and countless others. Now certain dances appeal to different people, whether you’re a hip hop street dancer or the stuff old ladies do in water aerobics class in the YMCA. Having a unique style is kind of like DNA in the sense that it sets you apart from the many other dancers in the world, and since dance is an art form, unique expression is imperative. Now, how do you find that style? What I found was best for me to find that style was to set up a camera and record myself. I would put on music that got me in a really good mood for dancing and close my eyes and focus on character or emotion. Then, I would try to visually represent the music with freestyle. After watching your recordings, you will start to notice that your body has certain natural tendencies which is where you build the beginnings of your style. Then, you have to put in personal time trying to figure out all the different aspects of your style and truly mastering it.
Recap:
The most important things to focus on are style, technique, and musicality. Then you should be on your way to being an amazing freestyle dancer.
part: 1,2,3,4,5
My final performance with the Westwood Breakdance Club.
I am really thankful for all the time I got to spend learning and creating with these guys, and I'll miss them a lot as my dance journey carries on.
On Friday, I decided to also dance to a song I've never heard and see how it turned out. I honestly think this one is better than the dubstep one I just posted.
I've been listening to this song a lot, so I decided to give it a try.
Warning: It's dubstep, so it may not be your cup of tea
Westwood Break Club's performance at Escapade 2014!
It was a pretty exciting performance, and I will upload a better version soon!
This is my ISP Connection to Othello.
I decided to do a battle between the main protagonist and antagonist.
Why Stretching Should be Your Best Friend
Sometimes when you think you’re saving yourself time, you are really not. I pretty much skipped stretching before I danced or exercised for a month in order to save precious time thanks to the stack of homework on my desk. Besides a little soreness, I never really felt any ill effects from this.
Enter handstands.
At break dance club, I noticed some people had the ability to do handstands and headstands. While I was not likely to use them in any of my dance moves, they were a neat skill to learn. I just went straight into them and BOOM! I pulled a muscle in my leg. Physically, I was as useless as a competitive underwater basket weaver (Yeah, I know, this is an overused joke.)
So yeah kids, you should stretch before you do any kind of physical activity because you are one bad move away from doing permanent damage. I probably will have to contact my ISP mentor about some really good stretches that I can do daily.
***Side note: Not only is stretching essential before physical exercise, it can be a great daily ritual. It helps deal with stress, gets your metabolism going, and helps your body wake up and be efficient for the rest of the day.
****I try to follow the stretches on this link: http://www.livestrong.com/article/356519-dance-stretches-to-increase-flexibility/ . In general, Livestrong has good physical tips on keeping your body in it’s most efficient state.
*****More stretching guides that are harder in my honest opinion: http://www.shapefit.com/stretching-exercises.html and http://www.livestrong.com/article/375727-what-are-some-good-advanced-stretches/
How dance is starting to interact with my other interests.
Since I was little, the fine arts have really meant a lot to me. When I was little I would act like any character I liked in television shows or in the movies. My parents would jokingly call me a “drama king” because I was never truly myself. This might have possibly inspired my later interests in film.
As I started the sixth grade, I enrolled in band in where I began to get involved music. Music was an excellent way to capture in life through your ears and I was consumed by it. I would practice to no end in order to become a better musician. Also, in middle school I became interested in film and began to learn as much as I could about it.
Even though theatre, band, and film are all subcategories of fine arts, I didn’t really see how they would relate to dance. Of course I would find a way to do so.
My close friend Chris started talking to me about writing songs together over Thanksgiving break and I was very interested because at home I was always making small songs to pass time. We decided we would create a song, along with a dance and music video to compliment this. As we began to write the thoughts of an album began to float out there which was daunting but very cool.
What is even cooler is the fact that I have almost come full circle in terms of the fine arts. I have almost hit every single category, but now I’m finally putting the pieces together. It seems like this is the culmination of the fine arts in my childhood. It is truly an amazing thing to be able to reflect upon.
Throwback Thursday: Joining Break Club
I recently joined break dancing club to break a major fear that I have. The idea of performing in front of people scares me a ton. I believe that if I surround myself with a community of people who share similar interests, I will slowly learn how to break out of this performing shell. I can already begin to see slight improvements in this and I’m able to show my friends some of things I have been working on.
Another aspect that excites me about the club is the ability to learn off of others. While this club is called break dancing club, it does not solely focus on just that. We try to learn routines with each other to famous pop songs as well as work on our improvisational dancing skills. I personally feel like improv will take time for me due to my performance fears. Almost every single member of the club is interested in a different styles of dance and don’t seem to mind sharing this knowledge with others. My goal is to learn a little something from everyone before the year is over.
It helps to learn and practice routines with others as well as share ideas, which makes break dance club one of the neatest clubs at Westwood. Through this club, it can noticed that dance is not just an activity or art form, it is culture, and I’m very proud that my peers created this club to promote such a community. It really goes to show that even a school that puts much of its focus on academics can have flourishing creativity and fine arts.
1 year later: It's amazing what a difference this club has made in my life. I'm more confident and healthier than ever, and I've been working very hard to achieve all my dance related goals.
The first year of my journey. Here's to many more!
The Journey Continues On...
Dear Readers,
Going into Mr. Warrior 2014, I was not sure what to expect. Of course part of me really desired to win, but more importantly, as I mentioned in the "Why do I dance?" post (http://journeyofafreestyledancer.tumblr.com/post/67828850611/why-do-i-dance), I truly desired to reach my goals of exorcising my demons that have plagued me for years. Like I said, I truly believed dancing was like my super power that I could use to fight them off.
On the night of the event, they announced the five finalists names, and I was not included and I was initially washed over in disappointment. I felt like all my hard work had gone towards nothing. Luckily that feeling did not last long.
You see, I was performing among 10 of the most amazing, talented, and ballsiest guys at Westwood high school, and I was extremely blessed and fortunate just to be able to say I participated with the future leaders of our world. As I said earlier: "the winner is will rightfully deserve the title because I’m competing with some of the school’s most talented people at one of the best schools in the nation. I’m very proud that I get to share the stage with those 9 amazing guys." If any of you guys read this, I just want to congratulate you guys on your amazing performances and a big congratulations goes out to the winner, Zach Coles.
However, I realized I failed to destroy my demons. These demons were a low amount of self confidence, my past bullying, ability to achieve things, and the biggest demon of all was my issues with my body image coming from my struggle to lose weight. Still, the demons did fade that night. Even though I didn't win, Mr Warrior provided some of the most amazing memories and something even more important, a desire to work even harder and bring even cooler and better performances for you guys. I realized, I use dance as a means to fight these demons off, and improve myself as a person. Now, I believe my demons will never die because I use dance to fight them off, and if I ever successfully got rid of them, I would not need dance anymore, and I love dance too much to quit. So, the journey continues onwards towards even better and even greater things, and I can't wait to start working towards that. Let's go.
Sincerely,
Aditya
P.S. Thanks for giving me the chance to perform in front of all you guys, it was an exhilerating, and unforgettable feeling. Look forward to a new YouTube channel with new vlogs and dances.
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAhWxhHGYQGclGoNDFvBuwg)
The weekend before the biggest performance of my life.
5 days left seperate me from my Mr. Warrior performance.
Now obviously my injury to my knee was a slight setback but I was finally medically cleared today, but I needed some motivation, and I received a heavy dose of it when I got a quick message from a professional dancer called El Tiro.
El Tiro was on America's Got Talent with his crew called the Body Poets which was started by one of the Jabbawockeez named Kevin Brewer. He has been a back up dancer for T-Pain and has started a charity called Dance Saves Lives. All in all, he's a pretty cool guy.
So, this is what he said:
Hey Aditya,
Thanks for reaching out best of luck in your upcoming performance. I just finished watching your video and I'd be happy to give you back some criticism to help you improve your dance. The first thing I want to say is I admire your stage atmosphere of confidence, it is an important element of freestyle that drives success. I think one concept you can work on is transition and flow. it seems at times with your arm waving everything is very rushed and the same pace. If you wave from a fast, to a slow, to a medium pace you can create a different dynamic of levels with the same moves. As opposed to just waving fast, fast, fast. Sometimes when you are doing dance moves so fast the audience doesn't get to appreciate all the little intricacies. A lot of your moves are based around your arms, it seems to be your comfort zone everyone has one. A comfort zone is defined by the place where you dance the most. I would encourage you to try dancing outside of using your arm waves, like doing robotic moves, gliding, footwork, using your chest to hit. Overall you are doing a great job and I have confidence you will continue to do well. Let me know how the show goes you will kill it!
El Tiro
I had initially messaged him when I hurt my knee and was feeling mentally defeated. Thanks to him taking a few minutes out of his day to respond to my message, I feel like I have the ability to get back on track and train extra hard for these next five days. Here we go.
-Aditya Ali
