hey man, freestyle is all i do, even if you can't think of making a routine, just flow with the song. (ps - just remember every damn beat of the music)
@@SarthakMishraDance thanks man. I needed to hear that. I stopped dancing and it's been 2 years. I guess peer pressure got the best of me. Still struggling to bounce my way back.
Same here man I stopped dancing because I was afraid. But I recently started again and it's amazing. Don't forget that it's never to late to (re)start dancing
Mr Cosmos Sphere you should watch some Kevin paradox videos, he talks a lot about how to overcome those type of problems in dance such a repeating moves.
@@itsjustlisha Paradox talked about this in a certain episode of ask a paradox. He said that turn your weakness into your strength, in order to do that. We take the move that we do over and over again, and then make at least 5 variations of it. There are also other things that Paradox tackled in that video like how to practice properly.
I personally get scared because I feel like ppl judge me when I dance. I tend to freeze up inside and I move very stiff. I also have a tendency to do the same moves because I’m really terrible with switching to something new and then keep being consistent with it.
Maybe cause u don t feel the music enough for be confortable about what u do. If u feel the music, automatically, ur freestyle ll be dope. U don t need to be the best dancer but be the most enjoy dancer in the room. More u enjoy what u do, more the crowd ll. Be connect to u.
I suck at choreo and I’ve been dancing for 11 years. Finally ready to start learning choreo tho. So it doesn’t matter which way you start. Perhaps the best advice would be to start with choreo and freestyle
@@Dark_Angel555 Freestylers will start with sucking at choreo, but their way less self conscious about trying Choreo. Whereas most people who start with Choreo wont Freestyle as they are too scared to or have too little confidence in themselves to try
@@Dark_Angel555 yes actually to a certain degree. I’ve seen so many freestylers do more decently learning choreo for the first time than choreographers learning how to freestyle.
I started dancing by freestyling, and now I know why I struggle with remembering choreography in my team. I and my team are always frustrated about how I interpret a movement in my own way (I freestyle to popping and locking styles while I am in a K-Pop team now). I feel much better now that it's a common thing.
Ah indeed freestyle is completely different from group choreography. The hardest part is how everyone has to match their executions so it looks clean and in-sync. For Kpop I look at the dance practice very meticulously to find all the appropriate angles and positions for the body, and then look at how and when the dancers use energy.
I think learning freestyle helps a lot being a choreographer. Sometimes you can create unique moves or combos when you’re doing a freestyle session which you can later incorporate into your routines. Helps if you have “choreo block”.
Yuuuup. Half the time, my choreos start with freestyling to the song. I try to find the shapes and movements that fit the song, and see if anything fits so well I have to keep it.
When I see better people than me freestyle go first, I get so scared to go after them. The dance classes I go to sometimes breaks out in freestyles and there are always those people who are just BOMB.. I would go after them but why?! I really do feel that people would question why I went in. I love freestyling at home so I'll start with this and one day, I'll jump in that circle ;D
I'm the opposite, I freestyle constantly and have no problem dancing to whatever song is put on, but when I did try a basic dance class and they wanted us to follow a choreography I had such a hard time timing and doing the right moves, feeling like I had to do the same part 20x more than everybody else to get half as good. So this story was a real eye opener, thank you
Freestyling is the external expression of how we are responding to the music. There’s an internal listening and translating that goes on really rapidly. But… we are taught to stay focused on the external world, to follow the leader, and rarely encouraged to listen to our bodies (in general society - maybe less so in dance circles), so some of us have a harder time tuning in to the many ways our bodies want to move. I noticed this when I was teaching yoga - I did a section where I asked students to tune in to their bodies and do the poses their bodies wanted to do in that moment, and it was nearly impossible for most of them. I found this fascinating - they could not hear their own bodies desires. Anyway, I believe the more we can learn to lovingly tune in to how our bodies are responding to the music, the more internal our focus is, the easier freestyling becomes. I’ve been dancing for six decades, and I didn’t have a name for how I move until coming here. I’m freestyle all the way. Happy to learn new ways to move, but finding the greatest joy in making it up as I go. Dance on, all you beautiful souls.
Wow Jessie thanks for opening up and being so honest. Thanks for the reminder that all dancers at some point struggle with freestyling, or choreo, or for some of us, both lol
I started with choreography and did that for years. Just last year I started learning freestyle and now I prefer freestyle over choreography. Being comfortable with both definitely brings your dance game up!
I’m a freestyler who struggles with choreography. I’m self-taught and I basically do everything by myself. All I do is freestyle. It’s all that I am. Choreography super uncomfortable for me. I feels like I’m being restricted and controlled. I know that isn’t what’s happening, but I’m so used to only freestyling that’s what it feels like to me. I wish you luck on your journey!
I LOVE THIS! WOW I can relate sis >_< I started dancing when I was 16 years old at this small place where we would learn latin style dance like Bachata, Cumbia, a little bit of Merengue. Everything was always choreographed and we would perform at quinceanera's or expo shows. I didn't realize dancing was something I really enjoyed and wanted to get better at until perhaps the year after, when my first dance teacher introduced us to a local hip-hop or "urban dance" youth team that was hosting auditions and workshop classes for new people. That's where I met my new dance teacher who honestly introduced me to this whole other side of the dance world I wasn't even aware existed. It was through there that I really started taking dancing so much more serious. When I first started there, I was horrible, and I low key felt embarrassed because I was 17 already and there were so many other kids in the team, much younger may I say, who were so much better. I struggled learning choreography, not to mention I didn't know how to breath, how to NOT go 150% the whole time, I had no textures, and I was always ahead of the music. The only thing I had was a little bit of rhythm and how to count music, at least at a basic level. As I realized there was so much more I had to learn, I was determined to do better and get better. Which I can now say I've decently gotten better, at least to like a nicely seasoned steak, not cooked yet. After a year there, I had always been interested in learning ballet and developing my flexibility and skills that they have in leaps and turns. Thankfully after our team transferred into a new, existing, studio space I began exploring their contemporary, jazz, lyrical, and technique classes. Again, another part of the dance word I had never experienced before but it was exactly what I had always naturally wanted to do. So, at 18 then I really took up on a lot of training to become better. Over the course of another year I joined their competition team, going to dance conventions in Dallas, TX and competing at regional dance competitions (not so much hip-hop competitions, they were more like the Radix type of competitions where styles are more contemporary, tap, jazz and lyrical routines). My teacher Rookie actually taught my solo for competitions which was a mix of I guess you could call "contemp-pop". I don't really like that word, it doesn't sound serious. I still did fifteens on the side, and actually began teaching technique classes here and there at our studio, and I had my first experience performing at a dance recital. Everything was so much fun and I learned a lot more about dancing with a partner, dancing as a group, I gained my right and slightly middles splits. My double turns got better and my leaps got pretty high considering flexibility restrictions. It was a whole new wave of transformation in my body as a dancer, you could say I was a steak steadily cooking on the grill now. However, as you can see, all of what I was doing is learning choreographies and learning how to express them through my body in the way that our teachers kind of envisioned it to look like. Throughout this whole time, I've always hated free styling. Whenever we would learn a combination in our weekly studio classes, they'd always throw in a free-styling section, whether it was in the beginning, a couple eight counts in the middle, or to finish it with some freestyle-ing, I couldn't, I hated it. I've just always felt like I didn't know how to. I still feel like I don't know how to. It's like yes I try to feel the rhythm, I try to listen to the beats, and the words in the song but my body just doesn't know how to translate moves into that just out of the blue, even worse to make them seem natural with the music. I always feel like I get stuck doing the same freaking move and then I find I'm not even following the music and then I start looking at myself too much and I start feeling ugly like nothing that I'm doing is making any sense and I just stop because I feel embarrassed. DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED IN CHOREOGRAPHING! I find they're the exact same feeling and I hate it, I still don't feel comfortable choreographing, I find it extremely stressful. My teacher is always telling me I can do it, I should be able to do it at the place where I am in my dancing, and that I just need to be more confident with myself. And I understand where he's coming from because he's seen me freestyle successfully a few times and we've had choreography assignments here and there that don't look that bad. I just feel like, just similar to how being 20 can feel like, there's still a lot of disconnection in my dancing, kind of like a mental block, and so I just don't feel ready or comfortable yet. I do know that I can do it, I can do it sometimes, but I'm still not the best and as a dancer I know I still have a lot to learn. I'm not necessarily giving up on myself but I've been choosing not to force myself and if I start feeling anxious about it I stop, and I give myself a change in mentality, distract myself with something else for a little bit, maybe change the song. What I've been trying is to not let my mind create a toxic habit of making freestyling feel like a stressful task, I want my mind to remember that freestyling is meant to feel good. I haven't really done much of freestyling in front of people but thankfully I have a big mirror in my room and every now and then when I feel inspired by good music I'll let myself try to see what comes out naturally. Maybe with this quarantine break, once we go back to full dancing, my body may feel anew and perhaps "relearning" to dance may offer me a different pathway/point of view into the way I listen to my music and control my body. Keeping my hopes up, keeping my drive to learn going, and remembering why I like to dance. One step at a time.
Omg I can relate so much. I’ve always danced in a group and learned choreography. Even though I’ve won so many championships with my dance crew, you would never see me anywhere freestyle😅
I really struggle with freestyling because I've always had to learn choreography for Chamorro dances/hula/Tahitian and ballet. When it comes to freestyling, I end up doing the same simple moves over and over to the beat.. or I try to make all the moves reflect the lyrics.
Don’t be too hard on yourself:)) im still an amateur dancer that does freestyles but it is common to feel insecure. But just keep on freestyling. just feel yourself and let your body move and flow through the music. Get some headphones and burst ure ears with the music🤣 u can even close ure eyes to feel like you’re in your own world. Don’t be afraid to freestyle you will get better. And watch a lot of choreos and learn choreos aswell to gain more knowledge and to marinate the dances in your body. There will come a time when it will just be natural like nothing. U don’t have to think through every step like how you do when you choreograph just feel the music first:)))
Thank you! This made me feel so much better. Not being a strong free-styler has made me feel like 'less of a dancer', if you will. Yet, I've been told all my life what a great dancer I am. You've given me courage, THANKS AGAIN!!!
I started dance, mostly freestyle, in my basement during the first lockdown. I'm definitely not fully comfortable with a lot of things, but I think the comfort of my own home, with just myself and my camera (I even make sure people are asleep or not home when I dance), it's given me the space to mess up. And I can watch my videos back, see what I liked and what I didn't, and work on it. I'm excited for when in person events start up again, but I'm glad I started doing freestyle at home. I've never felt comfortable with dance, maybe because I wasn't allowed to as a kid, but I enjoy it and hope that confidence starts to come.
I went to the freestyle path and it helped me so much. I remember making a choreography for my friend’s cotillion and i always do it in a last minute. It was hard to make a dance move that everyone can easily do, especially the ones that doesn’t know how to dance.
I was the opposite. Was always a freestyler, and when I started taking choreo classes it took me like 6 months to be able to remember choreo. Drove me nuts.
Well for me, I'm currently going through freestyle in my own time, and I feel like I am slowly improving as I do it more. Although when someone says "go pop some moves for us" or "go dance for us" I get super shy, like stage fright, but the weird thing is that when I get into a certain vibe with everyone else dancing, whether if its freestyle or choreographed, I get into more of a dance vibe easier. I'm currently trying to get more comfortable with trying freestyle infront of other people who might not dance as much.
Yeahhhhhh. Exactly the same! I hate when people asked me... Please go and show some moves.... Then I get paralyze..but after a while when nobody ask and I feel everyone is in the same mood.. there I go!
For me actually the opposite sooo... need a tip for doing choreography and it's actually so hard to make one i always make a reason for me to not make or learn choreography srsly.. to be honest i to learn from your app but it's buggy in my country
My "ah hah" moment for learning choreography, was learning moves as if I was learning the words to a song or studying the elements of a piece of music the choreographer uses. The more you're exposed to choreography the more your body and mind will remember how to do it... Like, "okay I've done that move before" or "okay I've seen that before, and now I understand how to make it look". ALSO, ask questions if you don't understand how to transition from one element to another. A good choreographer will be HAPPY to break it down for you.
I suck at freestyling but Ive seen some of my Friends freestyle to the song they want to choreograf to and filming it so that they can watch it back and pick out moves they like for the choreo
Free-styling is my ACHILLES HEEL at auditions! Exactly like you, I'm great at picking up choreography, and have danced with some of the best in the industry, but even my freestyles have to be choreographed because most of the time, I freeze up 😑
It worked!!! I used to get stuck whenever I had to freestyle, but after trying these tips from @STEEZY, I loosened up and even got accepted to follow dance major on the school I always wanted! Thank you so so much STEEZY! love you guys
I started dancing ballet at a young age and I'm so used to dance everything choreographed. Now I'm trying to yk expand my horizons a little bit on different dance styles, including freestyling but damn I feel like I'm learning how to move again,, it's like my whole life was choreographed !
I find that just shuffling through my playlist and dancing to whatever song comes on helps with being more comfortable dancing outside of choreographed pieces
Thank jessie and steezy! Ahm... sometimes theres something in me that i think i will not be a dancer. But steezy make me realize that dancing is not to impress others but dancing is for yourself, and how can you show your feeling with dancing
I have this issue.. I am so scared of free styling especially when theirs a cypher lol but I'm really grt at choreography I pick really fast and make choreographies and the reasons you gave are exactly same with mine😩.. I'm scared being judged, I always wanna deliver and I started learning and making choreos first as a dancer. I'm so happy I ain't alone on this and I'm super grateful to you Jessie for bringing this to light and giving tips to help overcome this problem. God bless you. Thank you steezy🙏💗
For my as a freastyler I struggle to remember a choreography so much. I got recently to the point im ok with some choreo styles, and I pick them quickly but when it comes the time where in the class the teacher split the class in groups..... and above all when they record the official videos.... I get panic attacks and then I forget the whole choreo. I get paralize... Hhhahahaha im trying to get better but its taking me a lot of courage and focus. Im getting better and im happy. Small steps are huge changes! Now i am studying to become a dance therapist as I want to help people to unblock their bodies and feel them along with music : its the best feeling I ever have!
For freestyling, you can freestyle set moves as well, Mr. Wiggles used to freestyle between set moves so that he got out his big moves, but without compromising his impactful moves, so even within freestyle there are different approaches. His approach was like an intermediate between choreo and freestyle.
I can freestyle in my head and its amazing, but when I actually try those dance moves that I just created in my head. I can’t do it....... I’m pretty sure it’s not just me....
yep, exactly. Bout now I see how to overcome: whenever I watch a dope move I try it on my own. Sometimes it sucks but sometimes, after long, long way of sucking it starts to work and look coo. After that I can add it to my own "vocabulary" and use it in freestyling. It takes time, a lot of time and practice, but really all those steezy classes I took helped me out a lot
I always have a giant insecurity towards freestyle since i was a kpop cover for 5 years. But i'm takin a freestyle class now, making a effort to overcome my fear of freestyling. Though i tottaly screw up the 1st day at the class but this video gave me more motivation to keep on working on to get rid of my fear :'( Thank you so much steezy
I found choreographers can transition well to freestyling since the only thing they need is to loosen up a bit. On the contrary, freestylers have a hard time ( double ) adjusting to choreography. If they go all out on their own moves and feelings, it is difficult to adjust to planned, disciplined flows.
I relate so much! I started dancing 8 years ago but my studio only ever offered choreography classes. I love doing choreography and I'm actually pretty decent at it (I guess lol) but I rarely ever tell people that I've been dancing for such a long time because I still often feel like I'm not very good, since I lack in freestyle and I feel like people automatically expect me to be over the top amazing because of my long training period. Thankfully I was able to meet some teachers who are very involved in the freestyle/battle scene where I live and although I still lack a lot, I'm not as afraid anymore of trying and they really shifted my perspective on freestyle. thank you for this video, it was very comforting ❤️
"Scared of people judging me" is true with me though because I have been dancing for years and my insecurities come from the fact that sooo many dance teachers always told me that I am bad at dancing. I am not a natural dancer and I know that but tbh I guess I would finally start to make better progress when I wouldn't be paralyzed every time I am supposed to dance in front of someone 🙈 I won't stop working on myself no matter what they say and I am starting to finally get better (or at least I hope so) and start to care less about what other people think but the hurt lies deep when people you admire tell you you suck again and again.
This video is major facts, I’m lucky cause my first style of dance was breaking so freestyle was I was exposed to and just started learning moves in my basement. I took a 3 week battle class and joined my provinces biggest freestyle battle.... yep. But the studio I go to now is mainly choreography so I get the best of both world. Never was afraid of people judging my freestyle but when it came to showing choreo oh HELL nah, I was so scared. But now that I’m using STEEZY studio, Im getting better everyday. Thanks STEEZY🙌
Ohhhh my godd😱 both the things that you just said are soooooo true in my case 😂😂kindly make a video on how to improve at it...how to overcome this fear
I can relate to EVERY SINGLE WORD........ not kiding honestly..... I m so happy to find out it is normal to feel insecure about freestyling Thank you Steezy will try to work on it more now....
I use to freestyle confidently years ago. Then the culture of dance changed and I heard people judging and mocking me. Now I'm scared of freestyling because I'm not yet versed in current dance culture. I am a Steezy member and am learning new moves but I still only freestyle behind closed doors. I'm still not great because I don't naturally choose the new moves.
thank you for sharing this with us. I like to freestyle in front of my friends when they're practicing a song and I don't know the choreo, but if someone asks me to do it in a party I would deff deny bc I know I suck at dancing. But this video helped me and know I will practice my moves and record myself so I can be more conscious about how I move so I enjoy more dancing.
My biggest challenge is balancing the feel and vocabulary. To overcome this I have evening training sessions where I do one technique per week. Master two or three move and end of month combine them in a freestyle
i also grew up in choreography and I have this classmate rn that is VERY good in freestyling and I was really insecure. He's been doing sessions and battles while I mostly dance in church, school and home (which made me very flexible in different style of dancing and genres). I tried freestyling, alone obviously, and I SUCK. I'd say I'm pretty good with choreograph and I suck at freestyle. I really thought I'm a bad dancer but watching this, it kind of made me feel better a bit
This is so on point. I also started dancing by learning choreography and grew up, still learning choreography. I really hate it when someone would put me on the spot and I feel like I would be such a laughing stock when I do freestyling. I sucks too, as well in making choreography. Hopefully I would overcome this
I always thought that dancers were based on learning choreo and that dancers who freestyle also are good at picking up choreo so this video was super refreshing for me since I self taught myself dance by freestyling but can't for the life of me memorize or learn choreo.
girl same... my hiphop teacher really loves making us suffer (do freestyle) every class, and every time i feel like ppl are looking at me and thinking wow she's so bad. idk why but i thought the better u dance the better your freestyle is but apparently not ... for now im just able to do it alone in front of my mirror lmao
Thank you for sharing it,Jessie!This is relatable in so many ways. I LOVE LOVE dancing and especially freestyling only ALONE tho. I love just enjoying the music and suddenly dancing because my body just feels like it LMAO. Everyone has their own insecurities and stories and we are all different.
Used to be more comfortable with choreography due to the anxiety of freestyle infront of others but now I much prefer just FEELING it and freestyling. I'm teaching myself to hold eyecontact with the camera and using my face! And pretend that noone else is there... 😊
I've been freestyle dancing for at least 10 years, so much so that I do it in everything I do. Doing choreography is something that I can do, just not have a clean look to it. Both styles are great but take time to get the other. Maybe one day we'll get there. Thank you for the videos.
my problem is not that I'm afraid of it, I'm just a little apprehensive. But once I'm going, I'm comfortable. Choreographies, on the other hand, make me a bit nervous(which is ironic, because cheer is packed full of choreos). I am always screwing them up! Freestyle dance is comfortable and almost natural for me because I am constantly dancing and figuring new techniques and moves out and then putting them to use. I'm always watching and analyzing dance videos and practices, watching how they do a specific move, and replicating it then modifying it to meet my tastes. I mess up choreographies because they are so set and rather inflexible, unless you want to stand out and make the whole thing look slightly off(again, talking about cheer. Comp routines are brutal). And so I find videos on dance and techniques to solidify my dancing and hopefully help me make the choreos look better when I do them. But at the same time it's backfiring on me a bit because I'm so used to freestyling.
dang the point where dancers who mainly freestyle but have trouble picking up choreography hit home... but im trying my best to create and learn new choreography on steezy right now, especially the foundations
I guess I'm freestyle dancer because first I struggle to catch choreo and second don't know how some my own steps start including in the other choreos...
OMG this is so true. I always freeze and stress when someone ask me to freestyle. But in my case the imaginary people are real. I have heard them say bad stuff about my dance like it has no style, it looks weird and a bad dancer. So I'm very conscious of it. Whenever I tried freestyling I always dk what to do or thinking am I weird. No one is looking am I that bad haha. Fml
One day we did a freestyling lesson and I never freestyled in front of other or even on my own before. So I didn't move and just stood there doing nothing. I was so afraid so I immediately left the group and never came back again😔. But two years later I'm starting to improve and now I'm more able to freestyle on my own and move a bit in front of others. I'm a really really shy and closed person when it comes to dancing. So if I'm even able to do it so can you. Whoever reads this I believe in you though it's hard! But you get there.
This is so relatable!!! I learnt dance through choreography and I'm still really bad at freestyling. I just get let loose because I'm afraid I'm gonna do something weird/look weird, even though I think that's inevitable and all part of the freestyle. But I have a friend who learnt dance informally and he is really good at freestyling. He's good at picking up choreography but struggle to create his own choreography. While for me, it's really easy to create choreography. My brother is the same like my friend because even though my brother went to classes with me, he started much later in life and he began by freestyling and just self-learning. But it's also weird how I cannot freestyle because when I hear music, I am freestyling in my brain but I cannot translate that to my body fast enough. The choreography I create also comes from this "brain freestyle" so like...yeah. I just need to learn how to get over that fear of people judging me and just let loose because when I'm just alone in my room, it is not as bad. Though I still feel really weird and uncomfortable but it's slightly better.
This is dope! And helpful! I used to be really scared because I thought I would look weird or not good doing it. I still get scared some times but I’ve tried just throwing myself in there and just let the music flow. Come back to Atlanta and dance with us again!
I’ve danced choreography my whole life, I’m currently 20 years old, this video REALLY got to me. I’m considered a talented dancer (I think) and often gets chosen in class. I also feel pretty good when I take classes and do choreography, I also make my own. ALTHOUGH, freestyle is something I’ve started with recently and it makes me question myself so much. How can I call myself a dancer when I freestyle this bad?The emotion and feeling is there, but I don’t feel like I know any steps all of a sudden? I look lost and my arms are usually very uncomfortable, cuz I can’t come up with ANYTHING. I know that you should practice freestyle to any song, even better if you’ve never heard it, but my question is: Would it be okay to make a playlist of songs I know well and practice freestyle to them? Or how should I practice? I’m good at grooves and hiphop but how do I get CLEAR basic foundamental steps into my freestyle without having to think? Where do people learn foundamentals outside of class? UA-cam? What do I search? On Instagram? Mimicking other freestylers?
I have done a lot of different dance styles... I'm not super good at choreo but I pick up movements pretty well. Normally anytime there is music or people I love to test myself and dance and see how the crowd reacts. That has been my way of getting very good at freestyling .
Stopped dancing because of the "fear" and losing that passion still hurts.
hey man, freestyle is all i do, even if you can't think of making a routine, just flow with the song. (ps - just remember every damn beat of the music)
@@SarthakMishraDance thanks man. I needed to hear that. I stopped dancing and it's been 2 years. I guess peer pressure got the best of me. Still struggling to bounce my way back.
Same here man I stopped dancing because I was afraid. But I recently started again and it's amazing. Don't forget that it's never to late to (re)start dancing
@@sheldonalberto1438 we don't know each other but glad to hear you didn't quit
I appreciate you all, man. Y'all are the freakin' GOATs.
I'm scared of freestyling because I'm scared to be judged with my limited dance moves.😬
Meeeee
Make at least 5 variations of that dance move that you repeat.
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@@theholyshrimp1012 good advice. Never thought about it. Thank you
same
This was really helpful ,I have not taken any classes ,just see n learn myself but when it comes to freestyle I too get insecure
Bro same....
same😩
Same here 😥
I do have a problem when it comes to freestyle. I tend to limit myself and do some of the same moves instead of moving to the music 😅
Mr Cosmos Sphere you should watch some Kevin paradox videos, he talks a lot about how to overcome those type of problems in dance such a repeating moves.
same here, and my friends noticed, so i end up do not dare to do any freestyle dance anymore :')
Same here
same here! if you have found any ways to overcome this pls let us know haha!
@@itsjustlisha Paradox talked about this in a certain episode of ask a paradox. He said that turn your weakness into your strength, in order to do that. We take the move that we do over and over again, and then make at least 5 variations of it. There are also other things that Paradox tackled in that video like how to practice properly.
I was just thinking about this problem of mine
Omg steezy..
i was thinking taht too
I personally get scared because I feel like ppl judge me when I dance. I tend to freeze up inside and I move very stiff. I also have a tendency to do the same moves because I’m really terrible with switching to something new and then keep being consistent with it.
I feel you
Same
Maybe cause u don t feel the music enough for be confortable about what u do. If u feel the music, automatically, ur freestyle ll be dope. U don t need to be the best dancer but be the most enjoy dancer in the room. More u enjoy what u do, more the crowd ll. Be connect to u.
The music ur listening to needs to be good enough that you think of nothing else.
This reminds me of Les Twins' advice. "Start with freestyle because those who started with choreo doesn't know how to freestyle."
I suck at choreo and I’ve been dancing for 11 years. Finally ready to start learning choreo tho. So it doesn’t matter which way you start. Perhaps the best advice would be to start with choreo and freestyle
i'm just curious, how do y'all suck at choreo??? :O
@@Dark_Angel555 Freestylers will start with sucking at choreo, but their way less self conscious about trying Choreo. Whereas most people who start with Choreo wont Freestyle as they are too scared to or have too little confidence in themselves to try
@@Dark_Angel555 yes actually to a certain degree. I’ve seen so many freestylers do more decently learning choreo for the first time than choreographers learning how to freestyle.
How do you start with freestyle when you don’t know or haven’t learned any moves?
I started dancing by freestyling, and now I know why I struggle with remembering choreography in my team. I and my team are always frustrated about how I interpret a movement in my own way (I freestyle to popping and locking styles while I am in a K-Pop team now). I feel much better now that it's a common thing.
Ah indeed freestyle is completely different from group choreography. The hardest part is how everyone has to match their executions so it looks clean and in-sync. For Kpop I look at the dance practice very meticulously to find all the appropriate angles and positions for the body, and then look at how and when the dancers use energy.
I think learning freestyle helps a lot being a choreographer. Sometimes you can create unique moves or combos when you’re doing a freestyle session which you can later incorporate into your routines. Helps if you have “choreo block”.
Yuuuup. Half the time, my choreos start with freestyling to the song. I try to find the shapes and movements that fit the song, and see if anything fits so well I have to keep it.
When I see better people than me freestyle go first, I get so scared to go after them. The dance classes I go to sometimes breaks out in freestyles and there are always those people who are just BOMB.. I would go after them but why?! I really do feel that people would question why I went in. I love freestyling at home so I'll start with this and one day, I'll jump in that circle ;D
I'm the opposite, I freestyle constantly and have no problem dancing to whatever song is put on, but when I did try a basic dance class and they wanted us to follow a choreography I had such a hard time timing and doing the right moves, feeling like I had to do the same part 20x more than everybody else to get half as good. So this story was a real eye opener, thank you
I can totally relate my moves just looks so different when doing coreo
Same problem. When I started teaching, I couldn't even count an eight count, lol. It's a skill the same as freestyling.
I'm having a freestyle block right now and this is so relatable
Freestyling is the external expression of how we are responding to the music. There’s an internal listening and translating that goes on really rapidly. But… we are taught to stay focused on the external world, to follow the leader, and rarely encouraged to listen to our bodies (in general society - maybe less so in dance circles), so some of us have a harder time tuning in to the many ways our bodies want to move. I noticed this when I was teaching yoga - I did a section where I asked students to tune in to their bodies and do the poses their bodies wanted to do in that moment, and it was nearly impossible for most of them. I found this fascinating - they could not hear their own bodies desires. Anyway, I believe the more we can learn to lovingly tune in to how our bodies are responding to the music, the more internal our focus is, the easier freestyling becomes. I’ve been dancing for six decades, and I didn’t have a name for how I move until coming here. I’m freestyle all the way. Happy to learn new ways to move, but finding the greatest joy in making it up as I go. Dance on, all you beautiful souls.
Wow Jessie thanks for opening up and being so honest. Thanks for the reminder that all dancers at some point struggle with freestyling, or choreo, or for some of us, both lol
I started with choreography and did that for years. Just last year I started learning freestyle and now I prefer freestyle over choreography. Being comfortable with both definitely brings your dance game up!
What if you’re bad at freestyling AND choreo ._.
which mean you could learn both my friend
Pick a struggle!😱 Lol just kidding. I think it’s the same, give more time to practice.
You're not alone :)🙋🏾♀️
LOL ME
You just need to work on it and have patience. Taking a video of yourself and making corrections is a very helpful thing.
I’m a freestyler who struggles with choreography. I’m self-taught and I basically do everything by myself. All I do is freestyle. It’s all that I am. Choreography super uncomfortable for me. I feels like I’m being restricted and controlled. I know that isn’t what’s happening, but I’m so used to only freestyling that’s what it feels like to me. I wish you luck on your journey!
I LOVE THIS! WOW I can relate sis >_< I started dancing when I was 16 years old at this small place where we would learn latin style dance like Bachata, Cumbia, a little bit of Merengue. Everything was always choreographed and we would perform at quinceanera's or expo shows. I didn't realize dancing was something I really enjoyed and wanted to get better at until perhaps the year after, when my first dance teacher introduced us to a local hip-hop or "urban dance" youth team that was hosting auditions and workshop classes for new people. That's where I met my new dance teacher who honestly introduced me to this whole other side of the dance world I wasn't even aware existed. It was through there that I really started taking dancing so much more serious. When I first started there, I was horrible, and I low key felt embarrassed because I was 17 already and there were so many other kids in the team, much younger may I say, who were so much better. I struggled learning choreography, not to mention I didn't know how to breath, how to NOT go 150% the whole time, I had no textures, and I was always ahead of the music. The only thing I had was a little bit of rhythm and how to count music, at least at a basic level. As I realized there was so much more I had to learn, I was determined to do better and get better. Which I can now say I've decently gotten better, at least to like a nicely seasoned steak, not cooked yet. After a year there, I had always been interested in learning ballet and developing my flexibility and skills that they have in leaps and turns. Thankfully after our team transferred into a new, existing, studio space I began exploring their contemporary, jazz, lyrical, and technique classes. Again, another part of the dance word I had never experienced before but it was exactly what I had always naturally wanted to do. So, at 18 then I really took up on a lot of training to become better. Over the course of another year I joined their competition team, going to dance conventions in Dallas, TX and competing at regional dance competitions (not so much hip-hop competitions, they were more like the Radix type of competitions where styles are more contemporary, tap, jazz and lyrical routines). My teacher Rookie actually taught my solo for competitions which was a mix of I guess you could call "contemp-pop". I don't really like that word, it doesn't sound serious. I still did fifteens on the side, and actually began teaching technique classes here and there at our studio, and I had my first experience performing at a dance recital. Everything was so much fun and I learned a lot more about dancing with a partner, dancing as a group, I gained my right and slightly middles splits. My double turns got better and my leaps got pretty high considering flexibility restrictions. It was a whole new wave of transformation in my body as a dancer, you could say I was a steak steadily cooking on the grill now. However, as you can see, all of what I was doing is learning choreographies and learning how to express them through my body in the way that our teachers kind of envisioned it to look like. Throughout this whole time, I've always hated free styling. Whenever we would learn a combination in our weekly studio classes, they'd always throw in a free-styling section, whether it was in the beginning, a couple eight counts in the middle, or to finish it with some freestyle-ing, I couldn't, I hated it. I've just always felt like I didn't know how to. I still feel like I don't know how to. It's like yes I try to feel the rhythm, I try to listen to the beats, and the words in the song but my body just doesn't know how to translate moves into that just out of the blue, even worse to make them seem natural with the music. I always feel like I get stuck doing the same freaking move and then I find I'm not even following the music and then I start looking at myself too much and I start feeling ugly like nothing that I'm doing is making any sense and I just stop because I feel embarrassed. DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED IN CHOREOGRAPHING! I find they're the exact same feeling and I hate it, I still don't feel comfortable choreographing, I find it extremely stressful. My teacher is always telling me I can do it, I should be able to do it at the place where I am in my dancing, and that I just need to be more confident with myself. And I understand where he's coming from because he's seen me freestyle successfully a few times and we've had choreography assignments here and there that don't look that bad. I just feel like, just similar to how being 20 can feel like, there's still a lot of disconnection in my dancing, kind of like a mental block, and so I just don't feel ready or comfortable yet. I do know that I can do it, I can do it sometimes, but I'm still not the best and as a dancer I know I still have a lot to learn. I'm not necessarily giving up on myself but I've been choosing not to force myself and if I start feeling anxious about it I stop, and I give myself a change in mentality, distract myself with something else for a little bit, maybe change the song. What I've been trying is to not let my mind create a toxic habit of making freestyling feel like a stressful task, I want my mind to remember that freestyling is meant to feel good. I haven't really done much of freestyling in front of people but thankfully I have a big mirror in my room and every now and then when I feel inspired by good music I'll let myself try to see what comes out naturally. Maybe with this quarantine break, once we go back to full dancing, my body may feel anew and perhaps "relearning" to dance may offer me a different pathway/point of view into the way I listen to my music and control my body. Keeping my hopes up, keeping my drive to learn going, and remembering why I like to dance. One step at a time.
Omg I can relate so much. I’ve always danced in a group and learned choreography. Even though I’ve won so many championships with my dance crew, you would never see me anywhere freestyle😅
The way that I relate with this is on a spiritual level
I really struggle with freestyling because I've always had to learn choreography for Chamorro dances/hula/Tahitian and ballet. When it comes to freestyling, I end up doing the same simple moves over and over to the beat.. or I try to make all the moves reflect the lyrics.
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Don’t be too hard on yourself:)) im still an amateur dancer that does freestyles but it is common to feel insecure. But just keep on freestyling. just feel yourself and let your body move and flow through the music. Get some headphones and burst ure ears with the music🤣 u can even close ure eyes to feel like you’re in your own world. Don’t be afraid to freestyle you will get better. And watch a lot of choreos and learn choreos aswell to gain more knowledge and to marinate the dances in your body. There will come a time when it will just be natural like nothing. U don’t have to think through every step like how you do when you choreograph just feel the music first:)))
Thank you! This made me feel so much better. Not being a strong free-styler has made me feel like 'less of a dancer', if you will. Yet, I've been told all my life what a great dancer I am.
You've given me courage, THANKS AGAIN!!!
I started dance, mostly freestyle, in my basement during the first lockdown. I'm definitely not fully comfortable with a lot of things, but I think the comfort of my own home, with just myself and my camera (I even make sure people are asleep or not home when I dance), it's given me the space to mess up. And I can watch my videos back, see what I liked and what I didn't, and work on it. I'm excited for when in person events start up again, but I'm glad I started doing freestyle at home. I've never felt comfortable with dance, maybe because I wasn't allowed to as a kid, but I enjoy it and hope that confidence starts to come.
I went to the freestyle path and it helped me so much. I remember making a choreography for my friend’s cotillion and i always do it in a last minute. It was hard to make a dance move that everyone can easily do, especially the ones that doesn’t know how to dance.
Michael Densing Bruh this is so relatable, I feel you on this one.
I was the opposite. Was always a freestyler, and when I started taking choreo classes it took me like 6 months to be able to remember choreo. Drove me nuts.
Well for me, I'm currently going through freestyle in my own time, and I feel like I am slowly improving as I do it more. Although when someone says "go pop some moves for us" or "go dance for us" I get super shy, like stage fright, but the weird thing is that when I get into a certain vibe with everyone else dancing, whether if its freestyle or choreographed, I get into more of a dance vibe easier. I'm currently trying to get more comfortable with trying freestyle infront of other people who might not dance as much.
Yeahhhhhh. Exactly the same! I hate when people asked me... Please go and show some moves.... Then I get paralyze..but after a while when nobody ask and I feel everyone is in the same mood.. there I go!
For me actually the opposite sooo... need a tip for doing choreography and it's actually so hard to make one i always make a reason for me to not make or learn choreography srsly.. to be honest i to learn from your app but it's buggy in my country
same struggle bro. try taking a video of yourself freestyling after vibing with your choice of music. worked for me. hope this helps!
so am i. thanks for share
My "ah hah" moment for learning choreography, was learning moves as if I was learning the words to a song or studying the elements of a piece of music the choreographer uses. The more you're exposed to choreography the more your body and mind will remember how to do it... Like, "okay I've done that move before" or "okay I've seen that before, and now I understand how to make it look". ALSO, ask questions if you don't understand how to transition from one element to another. A good choreographer will be HAPPY to break it down for you.
I suck at freestyling but Ive seen some of my Friends freestyle to the song they want to choreograf to and filming it so that they can watch it back and pick out moves they like for the choreo
Free-styling is my ACHILLES HEEL at auditions! Exactly like you, I'm great at picking up choreography, and have danced with some of the best in the industry, but even my freestyles have to be choreographed because most of the time, I freeze up 😑
I definitely share the same anxiety when it comes to freestyling and it feels good knowing that I'm not alone! This video helped me! 😊
It worked!!!
I used to get stuck whenever I had to freestyle, but after trying these tips from @STEEZY, I loosened up and even got accepted to follow dance major on the school I always wanted!
Thank you so so much STEEZY! love you guys
I started dancing ballet at a young age and I'm so used to dance everything choreographed. Now I'm trying to yk expand my horizons a little bit on different dance styles, including freestyling but damn I feel like I'm learning how to move again,, it's like my whole life was choreographed !
Anyone gonna talk abt the intro? Amazing. Thank you.
I find that just shuffling through my playlist and dancing to whatever song comes on helps with being more comfortable dancing outside of choreographed pieces
Thank jessie and steezy! Ahm... sometimes theres something in me that i think i will not be a dancer. But steezy make me realize that dancing is not to impress others but dancing is for yourself, and how can you show your feeling with dancing
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It has been the most relatable video I’ve seen in a while and i feel so heard😭
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I have this issue.. I am so scared of free styling especially when theirs a cypher lol but I'm really grt at choreography I pick really fast and make choreographies and the reasons you gave are exactly same with mine😩.. I'm scared being judged, I always wanna deliver and I started learning and making choreos first as a dancer. I'm so happy I ain't alone on this and I'm super grateful to you Jessie for bringing this to light and giving tips to help overcome this problem. God bless you. Thank you steezy🙏💗
it was like jessie was in my head and decided to vocalise my sentiments on freestyling BUT she made me realise the roots of my sentiments iM SHOOKETH
you’re like soo relatable omg jessie ilysm
My Biggesttttt problem
1. Running out of move
2. Can't understand what the song wants or the beats 😅
When ever I freestyle I get stuck in between the music and I stop it's like I don't know what to do next it really feels awkward 😭
i always freestyle to music when people are not areound and i seem to struggle to choreography the most so thank you for making me realize this 😭
For my as a freastyler I struggle to remember a choreography so much. I got recently to the point im ok with some choreo styles, and I pick them quickly but when it comes the time where in the class the teacher split the class in groups..... and above all when they record the official videos.... I get panic attacks and then I forget the whole choreo. I get paralize... Hhhahahaha im trying to get better but its taking me a lot of courage and focus. Im getting better and im happy. Small steps are huge changes! Now i am studying to become a dance therapist as I want to help people to unblock their bodies and feel them along with music : its the best feeling I ever have!
For freestyling, you can freestyle set moves as well, Mr. Wiggles used to freestyle between set moves so that he got out his big moves, but without compromising his impactful moves, so even within freestyle there are different approaches. His approach was like an intermediate between choreo and freestyle.
I can freestyle in my head and its amazing, but when I actually try those dance moves that I just created in my head. I can’t do it.......
I’m pretty sure it’s not just me....
the same strugle like you said it better than i could but of cause the is more to this subject
yep, exactly. Bout now I see how to overcome: whenever I watch a dope move I try it on my own. Sometimes it sucks but sometimes, after long, long way of sucking it starts to work and look coo. After that I can add it to my own "vocabulary" and use it in freestyling. It takes time, a lot of time and practice, but really all those steezy classes I took helped me out a lot
I'm pretty sure that's even non-dancers too 😂
Girl same!! I hate it
OMG SAME, I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE HSKHSKHKDSLHFWPIF
I REALLY LOVE THIS STEEZYY! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING A LESSON LIKE THIS!❣❣❣
These are great tips. Really cool that you share your thoughts, insecurities and experiences with us. It will help some dancers some day
"Freestyling" is the one I'm suck at... Aish.
I always have a giant insecurity towards freestyle since i was a kpop cover for 5 years. But i'm takin a freestyle class now, making a effort to overcome my fear of freestyling. Though i tottaly screw up the 1st day at the class but this video gave me more motivation to keep on working on to get rid of my fear
:'( Thank you so much steezy
I found choreographers can transition well to freestyling since the only thing they need is to loosen up a bit. On the contrary, freestylers have a hard time ( double ) adjusting to choreography. If they go all out on their own moves and feelings, it is difficult to adjust to planned, disciplined flows.
She's so honest and genuine ❤
I relate so much! I started dancing 8 years ago but my studio only ever offered choreography classes. I love doing choreography and I'm actually pretty decent at it (I guess lol) but I rarely ever tell people that I've been dancing for such a long time because I still often feel like I'm not very good, since I lack in freestyle and I feel like people automatically expect me to be over the top amazing because of my long training period. Thankfully I was able to meet some teachers who are very involved in the freestyle/battle scene where I live and although I still lack a lot, I'm not as afraid anymore of trying and they really shifted my perspective on freestyle. thank you for this video, it was very comforting ❤️
omg i relate to this so much!!!! but this was also rly encouraging and i needed this :')
I personally have the FEAR of FREESTYLE because I'm concerned & scared that other people will judge me🥲..... & repeating same moves😅
"Scared of people judging me" is true with me though because I have been dancing for years and my insecurities come from the fact that sooo many dance teachers always told me that I am bad at dancing. I am not a natural dancer and I know that but tbh I guess I would finally start to make better progress when I wouldn't be paralyzed every time I am supposed to dance in front of someone 🙈 I won't stop working on myself no matter what they say and I am starting to finally get better (or at least I hope so) and start to care less about what other people think but the hurt lies deep when people you admire tell you you suck again and again.
This video is major facts, I’m lucky cause my first style of dance was breaking so freestyle was I was exposed to and just started learning moves in my basement. I took a 3 week battle class and joined my provinces biggest freestyle battle.... yep. But the studio I go to now is mainly choreography so I get the best of both world. Never was afraid of people judging my freestyle but when it came to showing choreo oh HELL nah, I was so scared. But now that I’m using STEEZY studio, Im getting better everyday. Thanks STEEZY🙌
omg I really needed this😭 thank you I thought I was the only one who sucked at freestyling but was good at choreography 🤣
THANK A LOT for this video❤️ I too want to overcome of this thought of being judged. Steezy feels like home
Wow thank you for sharing, I relate to this so much not just in dance!
Ohhhh my godd😱 both the things that you just said are soooooo true in my case 😂😂kindly make a video on how to improve at it...how to overcome this fear
I can relate to EVERY SINGLE WORD........ not kiding honestly..... I m so happy to find out it is normal to feel insecure about freestyling Thank you Steezy will try to work on it more now....
I kinda started dance freestyle and learning choreography arround the same time, and thank god i did because now im comfortable with either
i didn't think i needed this video. i loved it especially because it came from the soul. i believe in you Jessie! thanks for giving us hope
I love you Jessie... you kept saying the exact same stuff I’ve thought so many times
Love it that you included Ian Eastwood! 🙌🏻
Steezy helped me to improve my dancing
I don't know why but I love this kind of video. Good job guys
Omg me too😢 I freeze or blank out mid freestyle. But I'm working on it with awesome supportive friends. I also came from a choreography background.
I use to freestyle confidently years ago. Then the culture of dance changed and I heard people judging and mocking me. Now I'm scared of freestyling because I'm not yet versed in current dance culture. I am a Steezy member and am learning new moves but I still only freestyle behind closed doors. I'm still not great because I don't naturally choose the new moves.
thank you for sharing this with us. I like to freestyle in front of my friends when they're practicing a song and I don't know the choreo, but if someone asks me to do it in a party I would deff deny bc I know I suck at dancing. But this video helped me and know I will practice my moves and record myself so I can be more conscious about how I move so I enjoy more dancing.
My biggest challenge is balancing the feel and vocabulary. To overcome this I have evening training sessions where I do one technique per week. Master two or three move and end of month combine them in a freestyle
You hit the nail to the point everytime. Thank you for sharing this 🧡
Thank you Steezy for this video. I relate to this way too much!
i also grew up in choreography and I have this classmate rn that is VERY good in freestyling and I was really insecure. He's been doing sessions and battles while I mostly dance in church, school and home (which made me very flexible in different style of dancing and genres). I tried freestyling, alone obviously, and I SUCK. I'd say I'm pretty good with choreograph and I suck at freestyle. I really thought I'm a bad dancer but watching this, it kind of made me feel better a bit
This is so on point. I also started dancing by learning choreography and grew up, still learning choreography. I really hate it when someone would put me on the spot and I feel like I would be such a laughing stock when I do freestyling. I sucks too, as well in making choreography. Hopefully I would overcome this
I've honestly never felt so understood before !!
i thought that i only had that problem with me but i'm feeling confident rn!
I always thought that dancers were based on learning choreo and that dancers who freestyle also are good at picking up choreo so this video was super refreshing for me since I self taught myself dance by freestyling but can't for the life of me memorize or learn choreo.
girl same... my hiphop teacher really loves making us suffer (do freestyle) every class, and every time i feel like ppl are looking at me and thinking wow she's so bad. idk why but i thought the better u dance the better your freestyle is but apparently not ... for now im just able to do it alone in front of my mirror lmao
Wow. I see the title, I click. This is me. Thank you for this 😩❤️
Thank you for sharing it,Jessie!This is relatable in so many ways. I LOVE LOVE dancing and especially freestyling only ALONE tho. I love just enjoying the music and suddenly dancing because my body just feels like it LMAO. Everyone has their own insecurities and stories and we are all different.
I salute u ma'am because you're brave enough telling to educate someone 👍☺️
Used to be more comfortable with choreography due to the anxiety of freestyle infront of others but now I much prefer just FEELING it and freestyling. I'm teaching myself to hold eyecontact with the camera and using my face! And pretend that noone else is there... 😊
I've been freestyle dancing for at least 10 years, so much so that I do it in everything I do. Doing choreography is something that I can do, just not have a clean look to it. Both styles are great but take time to get the other. Maybe one day we'll get there. Thank you for the videos.
my problem is not that I'm afraid of it, I'm just a little apprehensive. But once I'm going, I'm comfortable. Choreographies, on the other hand, make me a bit nervous(which is ironic, because cheer is packed full of choreos). I am always screwing them up! Freestyle dance is comfortable and almost natural for me because I am constantly dancing and figuring new techniques and moves out and then putting them to use. I'm always watching and analyzing dance videos and practices, watching how they do a specific move, and replicating it then modifying it to meet my tastes. I mess up choreographies because they are so set and rather inflexible, unless you want to stand out and make the whole thing look slightly off(again, talking about cheer. Comp routines are brutal). And so I find videos on dance and techniques to solidify my dancing and hopefully help me make the choreos look better when I do them. But at the same time it's backfiring on me a bit because I'm so used to freestyling.
Nicely said!
I'm the complete opposite! I am a freestyler and suck at creating choreography. I'm glad I'm not the only one!
dang the point where dancers who mainly freestyle but have trouble picking up choreography hit home... but im trying my best to create and learn new choreography on steezy right now, especially the foundations
I guess I'm freestyle dancer because first I struggle to catch choreo and second don't know how some my own steps start including in the other choreos...
My hearts swells at the intro
Steezy thank you so much for this video! I'm shit scared of freestyling because I think all the moves I do legit look thee same lmao
OMG this is so true. I always freeze and stress when someone ask me to freestyle. But in my case the imaginary people are real. I have heard them say bad stuff about my dance like it has no style, it looks weird and a bad dancer. So I'm very conscious of it. Whenever I tried freestyling I always dk what to do or thinking am I weird. No one is looking am I that bad haha. Fml
I needed this 😭
One day we did a freestyling lesson and I never freestyled in front of other or even on my own before. So I didn't move and just stood there doing nothing. I was so afraid so I immediately left the group and never came back again😔. But two years later I'm starting to improve and now I'm more able to freestyle on my own and move a bit in front of others. I'm a really really shy and closed person when it comes to dancing. So if I'm even able to do it so can you. Whoever reads this I believe in you though it's hard! But you get there.
Yep... first time I stepped into the middle of the circle during a Krump session I felt like a total idiot. I get it.
This is so relatable!!! I learnt dance through choreography and I'm still really bad at freestyling. I just get let loose because I'm afraid I'm gonna do something weird/look weird, even though I think that's inevitable and all part of the freestyle. But I have a friend who learnt dance informally and he is really good at freestyling. He's good at picking up choreography but struggle to create his own choreography. While for me, it's really easy to create choreography. My brother is the same like my friend because even though my brother went to classes with me, he started much later in life and he began by freestyling and just self-learning. But it's also weird how I cannot freestyle because when I hear music, I am freestyling in my brain but I cannot translate that to my body fast enough. The choreography I create also comes from this "brain freestyle" so like...yeah. I just need to learn how to get over that fear of people judging me and just let loose because when I'm just alone in my room, it is not as bad. Though I still feel really weird and uncomfortable but it's slightly better.
This is dope! And helpful! I used to be really scared because I thought I would look weird or not good doing it. I still get scared some times but I’ve tried just throwing myself in there and just let the music flow. Come back to Atlanta and dance with us again!
did that work? it didnt for me
This is very relatable. But now I'm struggling into choreo than the freestyling
Because I'm always practicing a freestyle while when I was bored.
I really needed this video, thanks for making awesome content 💖💖💖
I’ve danced choreography my whole life, I’m currently 20 years old, this video REALLY got to me. I’m considered a talented dancer (I think) and often gets chosen in class. I also feel pretty good when I take classes and do choreography, I also make my own. ALTHOUGH, freestyle is something I’ve started with recently and it makes me question myself so much. How can I call myself a dancer when I freestyle this bad?The emotion and feeling is there, but I don’t feel like I know any steps all of a sudden? I look lost and my arms are usually very uncomfortable, cuz I can’t come up with ANYTHING. I know that you should practice freestyle to any song, even better if you’ve never heard it, but my question is:
Would it be okay to make a playlist of songs I know well and practice freestyle to them? Or how should I practice? I’m good at grooves and hiphop but how do I get CLEAR basic foundamental steps into my freestyle without having to think? Where do people learn foundamentals outside of class? UA-cam? What do I search? On Instagram? Mimicking other freestylers?
I have done a lot of different dance styles... I'm not super good at choreo but I pick up movements pretty well. Normally anytime there is music or people I love to test myself and dance and see how the crowd reacts. That has been my way of getting very good at freestyling
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