So - you've fallen in love with a piece of music....

Rachel Osborne started this discussion · 8/10/2014

And you just know you HAVE to dance to it. What's your process? Do you just slam it and jam it? Follow (the ace) Veena choreo tips? https://www.studioveena.com/lessons/view/52f8463f-3884-4318-b2fd-2d1c0a9aa0eb Shoot it over and over then use vid to choreo the best bits into a flow? Make proper notes? Space out in the car/at work/over dinner mentally chaining combos? Something else? So many of you ladies look like you just swish into amazing freestyles or dance performances without pausing - I'm very keen to learn your secrets :)

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MeganJoan · 8/11/2014
Freelancing is something I really want to get into once my foot heals! My issue is that I listen to music and can visualise these beautiful routines but it's always using intermediate moves that I totally can't do yet! I'm not great at dancing and flow so I struggle with my beginner to intermediate moves getting them into a routine. I suck so bad at it that I don't even know how to practice. Does it work to kind of choreograph stuff and then the more you get used it to the easier it is to do it on the fly?
Rachel Osborne · 8/11/2014
I dunno: I'm not an expert, I'm not advanced or practiced at freestyle but thanks to encouragement from this site have been trying... I often hear music and get very excited imagining a dance to it, but get bogged down trying to choreo and lose the freestyle element. Or if I freestyle I just prance about and forget to do the moves I wanted! I have 'go-to' combos that I usually end up doing and they tend to appear in every dance but I try to make them fit the music so my best, most dramatic sequence will go in the crescendo or drama bit, a slow climb into swan then CAR will go in the slow bit, then I put some other stuff in that trys to tell a story - like starting tucked up in a ball on the floor and then cradle spinning up, if it's a introverted song, or strutting, kicking, sashaying hips and doing sexy floor work if it's an extroverted/sexy song, and trying to make fully extended shapes on the beat and hold them for 2 spins round. But it's currently a bit of a muddle and I'm in my head too much thinking 'what next?' It's hard! Hence trying to pick your brains! I did find the Veena 'tips to make a routine' really helpful. I feel very vulnerable and a lot of performance anxiety about freestyle but when I get into it - usually the second or third take - it can feel amazing.