#improvisational dance

[zennihilation]

I said it before the only good thing the Crows ever did for me was put Improv Dancing Competition Shorts in my YT feed and also the DATV community but also the shorts.

[xtrablak674]

No Shame or Embarrassment Here

Now I had a curator who wanted me to reshare this link with her which has forty-seven views. Prior to my sharing it here this was an unlisted link, so you would literally need the link to be able to view it. It doesn't seem like her nature, but she is human, maybe she shared this with others as a joke. I can never be sure, I never had comments turned on.

I enjoy watching this video, first of all Badu's song is so hypnotic, and I am also clearly thinner here. There is also the state of the room I am dancing in, I can see a huge pile of cat hair swept off to the corner on the right and generally the room isn't looking tidy. But I am still feeling the music and moving through it, obviously not with as much flexibility I had in high school. But still doing okay.

There is no shame for me in this video, as I said its an improvisational dance, there is no choreography here, its a stream of conscious movement of the body. I feel joy and release watching it, because that is what I felt in the moment.

[Video by Brown Estate]

[hello-chelsea-explores]

[hello-chelsea-explores]

[roesingape]

(via 2000 Holly & Roesing Dance Noise)

[altarflame]

This is Sergei Polunin (who increasingly reminds me of my son, the dancer, as I see interviews with him), the guy from the "Take me to Church" outdoor dance video I posted before. Also Kristina Shapran. This is an unrehearsed improvisation that I found by accident because I didn't realize I was watching a video within a Playlist.

I think it's REALLY HARD to keep the emotion and the riveting factor in dance on film - usually, I only feel moved or impressed in person, and even when I am watching recordings of the same thing later does nothing for me. But they kinda nailed that, here.

[tribunaalgonah]

Tribu Na'al Gonah performing at Lotus Dance Studio's Halloween show this Saturday. My Students, Shandi, Deidre, Marylin, Jessi, Christina and Aliki, and CoTeacher Carla, dancing FCBD ATS® to Dikanda - 'O Mama'.  For a bunch of them, this was their first performance. I'm Extremely proud of them!

[shehulkismyfitspo-blog]

When you watch improvised dance it all seems to come together so easily, with dancers breaking out moves and unrehearsed routines with ease and style. Actually,  creating improvisations require high levels of dancing ability- a combination of musicality, ability and training. Improvisation certainly must maintain an element of unpredictability whilst discovering new moves, but it takes practice to be able to dance confidently to a piece of music you have never danced to before.