#dancing stuff

[veridium]

I really miss being a dancer sometimes. Like, if it wouldn’t take months of physical therapy via yoga, pilates, and stretches to prepare my body for it (re: back issues) I would sign the fuck up tomorrow. 

Maybe that’ll be one of my 2019 commandments to myself: get back into it, if ever-so-slowly. 

[sparklyspacekitty]

I also met a man who looks like an older version of Foggy from Daredevil. Also pretty cool.

[sparklyspacekitty]

We're dancing with the English Country Dance group, and one of the ladies asked if I was girl or a boy, so I'd say that's a win.

[veryotl]

Hello! What advice would you have for someone who wants to learn Kpop dances, but is really shy about dancing? How do you learn your dances? And what are some good dances to learn for an absolute beginner? Thank you so much!

Hello hello hello! ^_^ 

At first, I was wondering why anyone would ask me for dancing advice since I’m not really that good, but then I figured that would be a good piece of advice in itself. Don’t be too self-conscious. Dance because you love it or because it’s something you want to do, and don’t worry about how you look. Which is a lot harder than it sounds, I know. T-T Don’t be too strict with yourself, either. You didn’t train for years and years, so you won’t look exactly like idols who have years and years of experience. Instead, try to have fun with it! Do it because you resolved to do it, because it’s fun or good exercise, don’t worry about how you look. ^^

As for how I learn dances, I think it varies a lot with the dance. One way I do it is I watch the dance over and over, so I can hit the timing well. Another way is by using tutorials. Sometimes, I like to use like these, which only have the counts added behind them, but a lot of the time I find it more helpful to use this kind, which not only has counts but also has someone actively teaching the dance and saying “So you’re going to swing your arms and you’re going to move your leg like this at the same time” because an actual description is sometimes easier to make the moves cleaner. Also! Another good thing to do while you learn dances is watch covers! One good thing about covers is that you can see actual people who don’t necessarily learn dances as a profession doing the dance, and it clears up a lot of moves that idols sometimes just brush past without any trouble! Some of my favorite cover channels are Lisa Rhee, East2West, and Jellybeannose, but a lot of the time I’ll just look up covers for the dance I want to learn and watch random ones! (Also, this is out of nowhere, but a fun thing to do is covering a kpop dance with hardly any knowledge of it at all, just watching the video. My sisters and I do it whenever I can drag them into it and it’s really fun. Here’s another channel that does it too.) Also, sadly because I live in the midsouth, there’s absolutely no options here, but if you live somewhere that you can join a cover group, I would definitely recommend it. Even if you’re really shy about your dancing, it can be fun to have friends to do it with and you can learn a lot from other people! 

For easy dances, it’s a little difficult because everyone is good at something else, but I find some cute concept girl group dances to be easiest for me because there’s a lot less intense movements! Some easy ones I would recommend would be Cheer Up, A-ing, LUV, Oh!, Lionheart, and Gee. Some other fun dances I found easy are Shake It, A (which might be a little harder if you have problems with jumping), Adore U, and How People Move.

Oh! I forgot one last resource. 1TheK has a series called Let’s Dance, where the idols come on and teach point movements! It’s really simple and it can help a lot, so if you’re learning a dance that has been featured be sure to look it up!

Probably the best advice I can give is just to have fun, though, because personally I’m not good at dancing and I do it because I enjoy it and I want to be better. I started a dance cover channel I started because I wanted to see my self improvement, but I really haven’t shared it with many people because I still feel a little self-conscious, and I only uploaded one video because I got injured and then really busy with work. But since I’m encouraging someone else to just have fun and not care what other people think, I have to put feet to my words now so here’s my channel. You can watch my one (really horrible) cover that I put up and now that I have more free time since I quit my job hopefully soon I’ll be putting up more (if I can get my computer to cooperate with my camera!) and getting better and better. I hope you have lots of fun dancing and we can get better and enjoy it together! 

[creativityobsessed]

Okay, so I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I finally got a chance to go back to dancing, and writing stream-of-consciousness on the computer seems to be how I wind down from that, so hey, I’m back!

And the strange thing? Cute boy has been messaging me EVEN THOUGH HE LIVES 8 HOURS AWAY NOW. So, like, I can angst about cute boy, and talk about how awesome dancing is in the same post like I used to.

I mean, I probably won’t. But I COULD.

Anyway, it’s gonna take me a while to get back into it, I think. My feet are incredibly tired, and my lungs are burning. Tomorrow morning, work at 8 am is going to suck SO HARD. But I had a lot of fun, and it wasn’t like the last few dances of the spring (after cute boy left) where it was just sort of blah. I thought it was just the effect of not having a cute boy to be excited about and so dancing was never going to be the same again, but apparently not. So that’s a nice realization! I’m just hoping I have the time to keep doing it this fall.

yeah, okay, this is kinda short, but I am SO TIRED, and tomorrow is already gonna suck, so yeah. Goodnight, Tumblr!

[mystichanlin]

Because of his cousin's wedding party, Ciel was forced to take up dancing lessons. Noticing how bad said male was at dancing, Sebastian Michealis, the dancing teacher, decides to give him private lessons only to regret that later on; "Ciel, I said take a step back with your right foot, not do THE FUCKING SQUATS!" "But, it's hard! And stop yelling at me! WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME?" "Okay... Okay, just... Just calm down. Now, give me your hand and follow my lead, not so hard to do, right?" "Right..." "Ciel...." "Yes?" "I said follow my lead, not squash my FEET!" "WELL YOU'RE MOVING ALL WEIRD! I CAN'T KEEP UP!" "I ONLY TOOK A STEP BACK, THAT'S ALL I DID, I SWEAR!" "WELL, STOP TAKING A STEP BACK!" "HOW ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DANCE AND TEACH YOU?!" "I DON'T KNOW! YOU'RE THE TEACHER, YOU FIGURE IT OUT!" "Ugh.... You're lucky you're attractive; do yourself a favor and never show ANYONE your dancing." "...... So..... You think I'm attractive?" "Well, yeah. When you're not so busy trying to dance while looking like you're trying to take a shit at the same time, you're pretty attractive." STOMP. "OW, WHAT THE- WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" "HMPH!" "OH COME ON!"

[creativityobsessed]

I’m feeling very blah right now, tumblr. This week’s dance was fun, I guess, although it was open mic night which is often not my favorite dance of the month. It was also the first dance after cute boy moved (kinda too bad because we were VERY short on men, which meant I spent more time leading than following it seemed like) and, I dunno, in some ways it was just like the weeks that he would just not turn up when he was here, because he did that sometimes. And then I would remember that it’s not just this week, it’s every week from now until forever and I would get sad. It’s one of those almost things - it was an almost, a could-have-been, and so now it’s going to be harder to get past it because I’ll always wonder what if. What if I had just worked up the courage a few days earlier, or he had waited to mention he was moving until later? (I am probably too tired and should go to bed instead of ramble on tumblr, but how many of you actually read these things anyway? And it’s not like he’s ever going to find out, since I’m careful about keeping my real name and picture off of tumblr. For other reasons, but I still do.)

The actual dancing was fine - we had a fairly big group and did some pretty complex dances. And even though it doesn’t click with anybody else the way it did with cute boy, I still had fun. Fun enough to keep going as long as I can what with all the schoolwork I have. I wish that I had more time to devote to it, really, because it is a lot of fun. Just this week was a little sad, that’s all. And it’s going to be different from now on, I think. And different isn’t always bad, I know that, but it does make me a little sad.