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[iwontdancenetwork]

"Free (Ron Trent Remix)" by AphroDisiax ft. Sabrina Chyld | Choreography by Jojo Diggs

[hiphopconvosdotcom]

Kicking off #FreestyleFriday with JoJo Diggs, MopTop Crew member, house and free-style battle champ, and choreographer.  She chats with us on how to become YOUR best in a free-style. The advice is on point.  Check it out. #FreestyleFriday #HipHopConvos.com

[dancetronauts]

Jojo Diggs - Party with Me

[thehoppot]

Jojo Diggs "Pawns" This vibe is really cool @dodojiggs

[hiphopandchoreography]

Bring The Pain - Jojo Diggs & Tony Tzar (by Jojo Diggs)

[bethtub]

Reflection (June 3, 2013)

I think a reflection is in order. Okay. Reflection? I decided to go to the Jojo Diggs workshop a week and a half before it actually happened. I wanted to go at first and I was planning for it like I was going to but this is when I actually started to have things set in stone: getting people to go to the workshop with me and arranging driving situations. So, in preparation for it I went on some runs and took a popping class in Raleigh from Poppin Paul from Charlotte. It wasn't worth my money. He was a pretty bad teacher. I'm pretty sure he spent 45 minutes of the whole 60 dancing himself instead of teaching. Which would've been okay if he had taught while dancing or something. But he'd get caught up in moving and end up just dancing. I learned a few training exercises though. Which is good. I learned a lot about fixed points and creating spaces. I learned more about moments and how to make them work in my freestyle. Those "aha" moments. Not giving them everything at once. So, I got sick after that...and I spent the whole week not moving and trying to recuperate. Friday, everything started happening. Isaac, Robert, Clifford, and I made the trip up to Maryland. It was so suspenseful. I just wanted to get there and dance...but we had to wait a bit. I always feel really awkward around people at first. I've never really talked to Isaac or Robert for a long period of time. And I just met Clifford. Haha. But once housing got figured out... everything got moving. So, the classes. The first day were House Fundamentals and Whacking Fundamentals. Both styles, I still don't know how to describe much less do. Before the class, I met a lot of new people and really reached out to the community. It's always hard for me to start conversation and meet people ugh. But, anyway, the housing warm up was killing me at first. Ugh. This sequence isn't working for me. I need to just talk about how I feel after the intensive, right? Okay. So, I think I learned a lot that I can implement for Entropy next year. The small cyphers, for one. Wow. I really enjoyed that. Splitting us up in smaller cyphers? Brilliant. I think it made it a little more comfortable with being uncomfortable (something she said that stuck to me). She said she loved being insecure about her insecurities. To look dumb and stupid. To be comfortable being uncomfortable. After all, every person in that room is worried about themselves and that everyone else is looking. Why worry about everyone else? Everyone else is worrying about themselves just as much as you're worrying about yourself. It's fine to look stupid. It happens. Looking dumb is fine and normal and human. The ATMOSPHERE. OH MY WORD. So freaking different from dance fam in this area. I felt safe and okay to dance here. And the classes made sense. She was actually teaching us. I'm so used to the choreography classes. This was so different. This was actually really helpful. She knew what she was doing. She was able to teach more than choreography and give us all homework. Choreography can only get you so far, right? It's really funny. Hahaha. I thought that's what I had to keep doing to be better. But it's not. Choreography classes are not the way to go. I absolutely love learning these fundamentals and oh my word I am excited for my dance classes next semester! Yay!  I've been wanting to reflect on this for a while...but talking to EC really pushed this thought into the forefront of my brain. Dance fam is so stuck inside itself. We're a tight knit community, yeah, but does that mean we've lost sight of dance? EC just called me and oh my word. I am drowning in happiness right now. (: I'm so happy for him. Let me just briefly list things that I learned. From Robert's performance: having a beginning, middle, and end. Living in the "nothing". The moments of imperfection of the choreography. Be okay with looking dumb because it's where you'll grow the most. Being uncomfortable means you're forever learning and changing for the better. Train. Get out of the mirror. Know the movement of your body. Get out of the choreography mind. Let the moves come from the jack. Don't restrict your movement. Just dance. Do it for yourself and not for anyone else.  Not to lose myself. Not to lose Bethtub. Reflection concluded.

[bethtub]

Dance workshop this weekend in Southern Maryland!

http://events.jsonline.com/hollywood_md/events/show/319722583-jojo-diggs-summer-intensive Y'all better show. (:

[jnontanovan]

This makes me feel so close to you, Jojo - I LOVE YOU!! =)