reflections on snowboarding and dancing. :D
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So marami akong narealize on dance the past weekend nung nag snowboard kami ni timmy nolan. So please do take time to read this all. Ginawa ko siyang English para makareach out siya internationally. and first time ko uli magsulat na parang paper.
Kasi actually, most of the posts na nakasulat dito ay mga chat conversations or questions by people that I answer as if nag uusap talaga kami harap harap. With that said, salamat sa mga conversations at sa mga tanong niyo. Tanong lang ng tanong, usap lang tayo kasi dun rin nabubuo ang mga ganitong bagay.
i wrote a full story on it with more details. www.thelongerversion.tumblr.com
its a long read. but the points here are just a summary of what’s there. so if yall want to read on that. please do. :)
Reflections on snowboarding and dance
Why do people snowboard? I mean it’s just sliding off of a slippery slope with a wooden board clamped on your feet.
It’s because they want to experience it. Now after the experience they want to express themselves in the slope. They snowboard just because. Most people at the resort weren’t pros, they weren’t jumping, they weren’t doing flips and spins, the mere slide down the slope on a wooden board is what they want to do.
Now why don’t we dance just because. Me, Timmy, Decky, Sassy and Denise, all were competent dancers back in the Philippines went to a line-dancing club here. Youtube it up. it’s like the dance they do on footloose, where EVERYBODY dances. I didn’t see any fancy stuff there, (though it was complicated) it was just everybody dancing together. Not separately, but together. And why would they dance, because they want to. And they express themselves in dancing. Not to be better than anybody else, not to win a competition, not to battle somebody, definitely not to prepare and practice moves or labb to battle somebody, they were just plainly dancing and expressing themselves.
When we dance sometimes we forget to just dance. There is always a motive, a reason to why we dance, when we could just dance. J try it. It’s freedom!
I don’t limit this to just freestylers! Nope, try just dancing the choreography on your next class. Of course you are learning it, and with learning it comes process. But come time to dance it, just dance what you learned. And express yourself in it. Will your way in the choreography. And enjoy it.
It’s like you learn the basic manoeuvres of the snowboard in the bunny slope, the beginner short slope. Now there of course you’d fall and wouldn’t get it on the first try, but with repetition and a sound mind, you will get it sooner or later.
This is when the choreographer teaches you the dance without the music and just the counts. You learn it.
Now you take the lift towards the higher slopes. There no one will teach you. Its just you and the slope and all that you’ve learned. Now just apply what you have learned. And ride through it. And will your way to whatever direction you want to. You can’t just go down on the slope on a straight line because the board is straight and the slope is straight, nope, you’d want to steer, brake (you would want to brake i guarantee you) you’d want to speed up. why because you want to express yourself in the moves that you have learned.
This is when the choreographer plays the music and lets YOU dance! It’s a great feeling already to just get the steps down on the music plainly. But it’s just like going down the slope on a straight line, its boring. In the moves or choreography that was taught to you, you could still express yourself. And please do express yourself. Moves are moves but dancing is expression!
Watch how the dancers in the classes in millennium, Debbie Reynolds, BDC dance. They express and perform it! They go hard with it! The choreography may call for one spin but they’d do two spins. When they want to point out something on a move like a gesture, they wont just do it to the mirror, they’d gesture to a person watching them (normally the other students who aren’t on the select group, they were precisely sent there kasi there’s more to how they move the choreography. They were dancing and expressing themselves in the choreography. a dancer dances, a mover moves. WE ARE DANCERS). We should EXPRESS ourselves in our dance!
Its boring to go down on a straight line. Be loose and EXPRESS!
