My way of being creative is: 1. Concepts - if you have a concept as a certain way of moving or a style you can then create moves within that style & concept 2. Lines, angles & anatomy - how your body can move and the mechanics of the limbs, muscles, different angles with the body and the lines of the body in different poses and positions. You can also use the negative space to create the illusion of lines which aren't actually there for example a right angle gives the illusion of a box even though only half the box is there and mime is another example of using negative space to show something which isn't there but is an illusion. Can also have different limbs using different lines all at the same time moving in different directions 3. Continuous motion - where the last move finishes the next move begins, you can start or stop a move at any part of the body. For example wave to the feet>do something with feet>wave back up....you can use turning, isolating, rotating shapes & changing perspective of moves by taking moves to the ground, etc... These are my main ways to be creative
Maan, you are too smart. For sure whole dance community is so thankful for your help, your words, your lessons. What you do means a lot to me. Big love
Hi guys, I'm super happy I was able to record new Ask A Paradox for ya'll. Hopefully I answered some of your dance questions on the topic creativity! As said in the video please do not take my advice as the total truth. I can only give tips from my own experiece, but how those tips resonate with your dance is up to you to find out through practice. I would love to hear from you in the comments if any of my advice resonated with you. Hopefully this was a usefull how to video and I was able to shed some new light on being creative!
Actually, this is the same mindset of doing scientific research, thanks Paradox, and I'm lucky to be a street dancer so that I can absorb the philosophy of the dance itself into every aspect in my life.
Kevin. Today I felt fear to dance on the stage a front of 3 singers. I work as an animator so I felt obliged to dance, even do my manager didn't ask me for it. I was having a battle with myself inside. After all I had to release all of this stress through crying. I couldn't sleep trying to find the reason why and I noticed that I'm very hard for myself. After watching your video, I realize that all I need is a break from freestyle, and just living my life for a while. Thank you. It is hard to believe how smart you are when you talk about processing your dance in your mind. Great!
Really enjoying these talks! Thx a lot for sharing. Have you ever been to Brazil? Would love to meet you one day. It’s amazing how all these concepts can totally be applied for juggling. Best wishes and keep the great content (and dance!) coming! 💥
🤣🤣🤣🙈This is crazy. I have been ignoring Kevin's channel for months, because of a very crazy reason. And today I told myself OK its time. It's Sunday afternoon so instead of logging into Club Djoon's channel let me now watch Kevin. And here I discovered that Creativity is creativity across many fields. A dancer. No let me call Kevin what he is. A creative not a dancer. That's putting him in a box. A creative just explained blockages to me in a very cool, honest way. A gift wrapped in a motivating Enigma placed in a human dancing form... What a Paradox.
"Instead of finishing the painting right away, they let it breath they let it talk and they experience life in order to share that life into the painting." How beautiful is that!
Thank you very much! I'm so inspired by you, these advices are very useful for me now! I think, this video have founded me at the right moment. I feel myself burned, because I pressed myself very long time. But now I'm ready to take some rest and forgive myself and then try something new.
You’re such a beautiful human being! Not just a great and humble dancer, but also have an intelectual mind. Good influence for people who look up to you. Sending you a big hug xx
Kevin mannnnnnnn, you should consider running a podcast ! you have so much knowledge to share and itd be awesome to hear you and other like minded dancers exchange insights with certain topics ! Keep it up the good work
Yo! Its been a week since i found a video of you dancing and now im still here watching even if im not a dancer. Your advice is not just about dancing, its about being creative in other form of art. About your experience, about life. I love watching and listening about your advice about your opinions of life and art. Im facing problems i didn't now what i hope it not turn to depressions, but since im listening to your advice it helps me a lot. It help me too be calm to the situation i can't hanlde, to look the other side of life. You inlighten me your helping too understand more about life and to finding ways where my mind my soul my body to become one. Continue for making this continue throwing snowballs for us ☝ Greetings from philippines ✨
Thanks Kevin for sharing your insight and being a inspiration in many ways. Hearing you talk and especially seeing you dance and expressing yourself opened my mind again and seeing dance more as the art form it is. I always loved music but starting to connect to it on a deeper level again and trying to express myself by dancing like I once did as a kid listening to Michael Jackson. I wished I hadn't lock it away for so long and hurts a bit that I had to unlock it by looking at video's on UA-cam. I'm already 32 and it feels like I'm too late to dedicate myself to it as much as I would want to or even make a career out of it. Are you still teaching and are there people in your classes near my age? Hope you recover quickly and shine on a stage once again soon. Take care!
Love this part of ask Paradox, it opened my thought quite a bit, i habe this dancerblockage right now, and i understand now what to do, just because of what you said. I have to step back for a little and find myself again, or else im not really going to grow as a dancer, because my mind is holding me back. Thanks Kevin🙏🏻 you are truly a mentor for some dancers out there.👌🏻
thanks for taking the time to go over some much needed and not so much talked about vital components of dance, movement and the journey itself. Thanks for being you homie!
Don’t know if anyone caught what he said about vocabulary But he also slid in a wake up call for the nerds and geeks in the world don’t be afraid to fully be yourself at all especially if its a field you are 100% familiar with
Paradox are you going to start or do you already have a clothing line. I really love the shirts you have been wearing with your name on them. The one you wore at the return of your battling in the peridot green and the one you have on in this video. If you do have a line could you put where we could purchase these items, I’m hoping for this. Thank you 😊
Love your dancing, and now it all makes sense. Your philosophy is on point. You must do other art forms, because all of this is universal. Thank you for sharing :D
i was really fighting the urge to give video advice, i know you're at the airport doing this off the cuff, but... If the foreground is significantly brighter than the background the auto focus wont get confused on what the subject is :D
I'm not sure if I agree about what you said when you say we should not to be stressed when dancing and you must feel good. I feel in order to experience the good things dance has to offer (emotions, good vibes, expression, etc) you need to be disciplined. And that means most of the times you don't feel necessarily good, or you would choose do something more comfortable (playing video games). The good stuff come when you submit yourself to the stress in order to brake barriers and achieve new learnings and emotions, that will worth it when you get there. I think that can be generalized to other areas not only to dance...
So Baie Baie dankie Kevin. Diep uit die onder punt van Afrika. Ek waardeer jou raad. I know the Flemish understand Afrikaans easier than Dutch. So in translation. Thank you very, very much Kevin. Deep from the bottom of Africa. I highly appreciate your advice. 🌍
Thank you , man for all you do for the hip hop culture . It is amazing . My question is not about dancing , it will be about money . Can you please explain how people can earn money from dancing , maybe your story )
Man I’m about to get back to dancing and I want you to know you’re a huge part of the reasons that I’m having the courage to do it. Thank you for being so inspiring. Also you made me realize that inspiring people are the opposite of toxic people, so we need more people like you in the world. I hope your content reaches and helps a lot more people ! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for dedicating your time to help others who are experiencing what you have experienced on more than 1 occasion. This information has help me take a new perspective on my creative block. I feel more up to exploring and problem solving versus feeling defeated and uninspired. I'm excited to apply this to my movement and life in general. You are greatly appreciated! 🙏🏾💙
I really loved this content! Especially the topic of how to apply a vocabulary, helped me a lot. About the limits that create freedom, this connects with something very simple that I heard from a teacher: dancing to a song, whether choreographing or improvising, I don't follow the proposal to unload everything I have, but to give to her only the lines of expressiveness and movements she asks for.
thankyou for this. ive ben feeling and learning all this in my past years of freestyling . i just never knew how to word as amazing as u did just now. lol and while at the airport too lol
Love this video. About changing the environment, sometimes you feel the urge to do so, but don't know where to start. Even you tried, the trying did not work most of the time. What can I do? Take it easy. Keep trying, I guess.
And sometimes, it's about changing your own way of looking at the world. Many problems are essentially the same one. Maybe changing your own mind set will work.
Thank you Sir for actually taking out time and giving us exactly what we need at this moment❤ You don't know and I honestly can't tell u how much these videos are helping me. So, thank you 🌹❤
can i have my own style without having a label for it? of course, i am heavily inspired by other styles and cultures but i dont think i classify as one of them. thank you sir paradox!! your videos help me out a lot!! i am starting to share your videos to my fellow dancers here!!
19:07 'We started dancing to express not impress"
BRUH🙌🏾
But he also said you can't express yourself very well if you are not good,so to express you have to impress? Hahaha sounds funny
My way of being creative is:
1. Concepts - if you have a concept as a certain way of moving or a style you can then create moves within that style & concept
2. Lines, angles & anatomy - how your body can move and the mechanics of the limbs, muscles, different angles with the body and the lines of the body in different poses and positions. You can also use the negative space to create the illusion of lines which aren't actually there for example a right angle gives the illusion of a box even though only half the box is there and mime is another example of using negative space to show something which isn't there but is an illusion. Can also have different limbs using different lines all at the same time moving in different directions
3. Continuous motion - where the last move finishes the next move begins, you can start or stop a move at any part of the body. For example wave to the feet>do something with feet>wave back up....you can use turning, isolating, rotating shapes & changing perspective of moves by taking moves to the ground, etc...
These are my main ways to be creative
Yo thankyou
Maan, you are too smart. For sure whole dance community is so thankful for your help, your words, your lessons. What you do means a lot to me. Big love
"change your environment" that one resonated with me 👍
12:05 Word!! "This one minute will not define who I am" ...well explained!
Hi guys, I'm super happy I was able to record new Ask A Paradox for ya'll. Hopefully I answered some of your dance questions on the topic creativity!
As said in the video please do not take my advice as the total truth. I can only give tips from my own experiece, but how those tips resonate with your dance is up to you to find out through practice.
I would love to hear from you in the comments if any of my advice resonated with you. Hopefully this was a usefull how to video and I was able to shed some new light on being creative!
Actually, this is the same mindset of doing scientific research, thanks Paradox, and I'm lucky to be a street dancer so that I can absorb the philosophy of the dance itself into every aspect in my life.
I'm fascinated how your explanations on dance topics are appropriate for so many parts of our lives. Never stop learning
17:40 Paradox: "Don't take my answer as the answer." Me: "Makes totally sense!"
Kevin. Today I felt fear to dance on the stage a front of 3 singers. I work as an animator so I felt obliged to dance, even do my manager didn't ask me for it. I was having a battle with myself inside. After all I had to release all of this stress through crying. I couldn't sleep trying to find the reason why and I noticed that I'm very hard for myself. After watching your video, I realize that all I need is a break from freestyle, and just living my life for a while. Thank you. It is hard to believe how smart you are when you talk about processing your dance in your mind. Great!
Really enjoying these talks! Thx a lot for sharing.
Have you ever been to Brazil? Would love to meet you one day.
It’s amazing how all these concepts can totally be applied for juggling.
Best wishes and keep the great content (and dance!) coming!
💥
I've never clicked so fast on a video than I did now. Kevin you're amazing!!!
🤣🤣🤣🙈This is crazy. I have been ignoring Kevin's channel for months, because of a very crazy reason. And today I told myself OK its time. It's Sunday afternoon so instead of logging into Club Djoon's channel let me now watch Kevin.
And here I discovered that Creativity is creativity across many fields.
A dancer. No let me call Kevin what he is. A creative not a dancer. That's putting him in a box. A creative just explained blockages to me in a very cool, honest way.
A gift wrapped in a motivating Enigma placed in a human dancing form... What a Paradox.
"Instead of finishing the painting right away, they let it breath they let it talk and they experience life in order to share that life into the painting." How beautiful is that!
Usually what helps me be more creative is freestyling and then taking note whenever i land a really cool move or combo
Im an artist and this way of explains dance is prefect . It’s how I explain color theory in painting
8:00 Buddhism explained beautifully! Your metaphors are amazing man.
Thank you very much! I'm so inspired by you, these advices are very useful for me now! I think, this video have founded me at the right moment. I feel myself burned, because I pressed myself very long time. But now I'm ready to take some rest and forgive myself and then try something new.
You’re such a beautiful human being! Not just a great and humble dancer, but also have an intelectual mind. Good influence for people who look up to you. Sending you a big hug xx
This is my first time hearing you talk... i’m fascinated about how you described and explained certain things/topics in this video! 💘 Wow!
Yo big fan bruh!! Happy that you are back
True, cultivated, refined humble, evolving, free energy from you since day 1
You are such a prime example
I really need this right now cuz i have a battle on sat so thank you sir Kevin
So happy to hear this brother ❤
I started dancing to Express not to impress ❤️ thank you
Kevin mannnnnnnn, you should consider running a podcast ! you have so much knowledge to share and itd be awesome to hear you and other like minded dancers exchange insights with certain topics ! Keep it up the good work
This man really changed my life
Legend has it that paradox is the type of Kevin who is GOAT 👊😎🎶
what a mind opening speech! thank you
Greetings from Greece and Thessaloniki ! Your mentality means a lot to me !
Yo! Its been a week since i found a video of you dancing and now im still here watching even if im not a dancer. Your advice is not just about dancing, its about being creative in other form of art. About your experience, about life. I love watching and listening about your advice about your opinions of life and art. Im facing problems i didn't now what i hope it not turn to depressions, but since im listening to your advice it helps me a lot. It help me too be calm to the situation i can't hanlde, to look the other side of life. You inlighten me your helping too understand more about life and to finding ways where my mind my soul my body to become one. Continue for making this continue throwing snowballs for us ☝
Greetings from philippines ✨
The most insightful reflections/tips on freestyle I've seen so far...
Most humble dancer #RespectfromIndia ...
Great information. Your advice on creativity, I'm going to start using it in my posing routines. Keep killing it! 🙏💪👊
Beautiful man. Thank you a lot for this
Such a great help thank you!!!
How can someone so perfect exist
Thanks alot🙏 I really needed this !
Very insightful not to forget relatable and inspiring bro! So proud of all you do for the community, keep on exchanging man!👊🏾
U r so motivating and my inspiration to keep going ❤
Thank you again goat
So inspiring)) And it was for sure really helpful information cause I felt like I was stuck and not growing but this should help me
😭😭 thanks you for all of this it’s exactly what I needed
He is too honest to be a profitable dance instructor but
i love it
and respect him more because of it .
Thanks Kevin for sharing your insight and being a inspiration in many ways. Hearing you talk and especially seeing you dance and expressing yourself opened my mind again and seeing dance more as the art form it is. I always loved music but starting to connect to it on a deeper level again and trying to express myself by dancing like I once did as a kid listening to Michael Jackson. I wished I hadn't lock it away for so long and hurts a bit that I had to unlock it by looking at video's on UA-cam. I'm already 32 and it feels like I'm too late to dedicate myself to it as much as I would want to or even make a career out of it. Are you still teaching and are there people in your classes near my age? Hope you recover quickly and shine on a stage once again soon. Take care!
lmao what?! was thinking yesterday about watching your old video on this problem, uploads a video a day after! this man is a paradox for real
Love this part of ask Paradox, it opened my thought quite a bit, i habe this dancerblockage right now, and i understand now what to do, just because of what you said. I have to step back for a little and find myself again, or else im not really going to grow as a dancer, because my mind is holding me back. Thanks Kevin🙏🏻 you are truly a mentor for some dancers out there.👌🏻
thank u bro for the knowledges and more love from china
Many thanks for this 🙏🏽 Don't make us wait too long for the next one!
I have learned so much from your video. Please keep it up! Thank you!
thanks for taking the time to go over some much needed and not so much talked about vital components of dance, movement and the journey itself. Thanks for being you homie!
We start dancing to express, not to impress.
So powerful words to me. Thank you bro 😊
I love your honesty and will respect ,look up to it forever ....
I looooove all the metaphors. This is really inspiring 💖
I love you and your words🥰😍🤩
So relaxing .........😇
Thank you so much for this knowledge
Wow i love it
Every dancer need to understand this words
It's importnant
Good job that's a really a nice speach 🥂
Thank you bro... For nice information... ❤❤❤
I am from india and your videos have helped me a lot . Thanks for being there and teaching these amazing thing👍🤍
Sounds Amazing brodha 💜💙💚💛🧡❤🖤
Don’t know if anyone caught what he said about vocabulary
But he also slid in a wake up call for the nerds and geeks in the world don’t be afraid to fully be yourself at all especially if its a field you are 100% familiar with
Thanks for your heart and principles!
The painting cocept was a great example
I appreciate you taking the time to speak on this, connected with a lot of what you said and it’s awesome to see hear how u look at things!
So inspiring ✨️
Paradox are you going to start or do you already have a clothing line. I really love the shirts you have been wearing with your name on them. The one you wore at the return of your battling in the peridot green and the one you have on in this video. If you do have a line could you put where we could purchase these items, I’m hoping for this. Thank you 😊
Thanks for guidance brother 🙏
i'm glad i found this video i needed to hear this
That 12:22 really hits me up. You made me laugh at the same time 😂
You're a gem of a person ❤
Amazing Advice
Love your dancing, and now it all makes sense. Your philosophy is on point. You must do other art forms, because all of this is universal. Thank you for sharing :D
okay you just answered that question.
i was really fighting the urge to give video advice, i know you're at the airport doing this off the cuff, but... If the foreground is significantly brighter than the background the auto focus wont get confused on what the subject is :D
thank you so much for this!
really inspired, thank you ^^
Thank you very much sir ❤️🌱
beautiful words and well said.
helped me understand a lot. Thank you
You so so so helpful really love you buddy ... One day meet you
Ok, I wanna thank you and welcome back.
Hope u have a good health.
I'm not sure if I agree about what you said when you say we should not to be stressed when dancing and you must feel good. I feel in order to experience the good things dance has to offer (emotions, good vibes, expression, etc) you need to be disciplined. And that means most of the times you don't feel necessarily good, or you would choose do something more comfortable (playing video games). The good stuff come when you submit yourself to the stress in order to brake barriers and achieve new learnings and emotions, that will worth it when you get there. I think that can be generalized to other areas not only to dance...
Thank you so much for helping us out. I was able to understand a lotta things once again with your help.
Great ! Keep on spreading 🙏
So Baie Baie dankie Kevin. Diep uit die onder punt van Afrika. Ek waardeer jou raad.
I know the Flemish understand Afrikaans easier than Dutch.
So in translation.
Thank you very, very much Kevin. Deep from the bottom of Africa. I highly appreciate your advice. 🌍
Plz also upload the video about topic -how to create new steps or movement for hip hop dancers in choreography .......
Thank you , man for all you do for the hip hop culture . It is amazing .
My question is not about dancing , it will be about money .
Can you please explain how people can earn money from dancing , maybe your story )
Man I’m about to get back to dancing and I want you to know you’re a huge part of the reasons that I’m having the courage to do it. Thank you for being so inspiring. Also you made me realize that inspiring people are the opposite of toxic people, so we need more people like you in the world. I hope your content reaches and helps a lot more people ! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for dedicating your time to help others who are experiencing what you have experienced on more than 1 occasion. This information has help me take a new perspective on my creative block. I feel more up to exploring and problem solving versus feeling defeated and uninspired. I'm excited to apply this to my movement and life in general. You are greatly appreciated! 🙏🏾💙
I really loved this content! Especially the topic of how to apply a vocabulary, helped me a lot.
About the limits that create freedom, this connects with something very simple that I heard from a teacher: dancing to a song, whether choreographing or improvising, I don't follow the proposal to unload everything I have, but to give to her only the lines of expressiveness and movements she asks for.
Great words & vibration brother
thankyou for this. ive ben feeling and learning all this in my past years of freestyling . i just never knew how to word as amazing as u did just now. lol and while at the airport too lol
good stuff KP!
Man just thank you for sharing all this advices. It's easy to feel all the love and good vibes you put in it. This is awsome
Thanks for new tips and inspirations. You're amazing bro !
Thanks for the advices.
Love this video. About changing the environment, sometimes you feel the urge to do so, but don't know where to start. Even you tried, the trying did not work most of the time. What can I do? Take it easy. Keep trying, I guess.
And sometimes, it's about changing your own way of looking at the world. Many problems are essentially the same one. Maybe changing your own mind set will work.
Thanks so much for the advice it really helps with the block a lot of us has been goin through
Nice🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏾
This is damn helpful ... Thnq sooo much sir
it's was so long omg, we just Misssss you...
Thank you Sir for actually taking out time and giving us exactly what we need at this moment❤
You don't know and I honestly can't tell u how much these videos are helping me. So, thank you 🌹❤
can i have my own style without having a label for it? of course, i am heavily inspired by other styles and cultures but i dont think i classify as one of them. thank you sir paradox!! your videos help me out a lot!! i am starting to share your videos to my fellow dancers here!!