How To Dance Well and Feel Comfortable At Parties (the proven way)

Hi guys, today I'm going to teach you what three skills you need, what three skills are a must if you want to be great dancing in social settings, anytime you go out, whether it's a club, a party, a wedding, bar, work event, you'll know everything there is to know to look great. Let me know guys if I just thought of it literally yesterday, I'm thinking about doing a live free class, let me know if you would be interested in something like this, I don't have the details yet, I just know it would be perhaps on Zoom, where I'm teaching you live and you can ask questions and it's just maybe easier to learn than just watching a tutorial, so if you're interested I'm going to include a link below, you can leave your email below there and once I have all the details I'll let you know everything and we'll be able to learn live, that's kind of cool. It might be obvious but if you don't have the dance skills, at least the fundamental dance skills, no matter what you're doing on the dance floor, it will show that you cannot dance. And a common complaint from beginners that I get a lot is, I don't know any moves or I don't know the moves and then they go and learn the movements thinking that that's enough to dance but it's not and without the skills they won't know how to use the movements, they won't know how to make them look good on them, the movements, that's not enough. Today I'm going to explain what skills you need to be able to dance in social settings. Number one, rhythm. Definition of dance that I found is to move rhythmically to the music, move rhythmically means that you are matching the movements to certain components of the song. Usually it's the beat since that's the part of the song with most consistent rhythm and it's always the easiest to follow as well. There are different beats that you can follow when you dance but when I teach beginners I usually start them off with identifying the snare, the snare drum because that is usually the easiest beat to follow, this is the easiest beat to find, it's the loudest but of course it's good to know several different rhythmic patterns so that you look more interesting dancing. If you only dance following one, you're just moving to the beat, to the main one, to the snare and you dance like that for several songs, it's not going to look interesting, you're going to look stuck, like you don't know what to do but sometimes when I watch people dance to the music they look like they don't even hear it, it's all random, it's not a good look ever, it's like they're dancing without the music standing in their way, that's not good. Number two is body control and coordination which means having the ability to control your body movements and being in control of what you're doing, moving different body parts and making sure that your movements are not too big, not too exaggerated so if you notice that you don't know if your movements are too big, if you don't know how to make them look better, that's a sign that your coordination can be improved and also if let's say you're moving different body parts, you're learning from a tutorial and there's a lot of moving parts in it, you have to move your feet, your torso, your arms and you're struggling with having it all move together, that's a sign that you might be struggling with coordination or if you're moving those different body parts and all of a sudden you notice that it makes you lose the beat, you don't know where you are with the music, that's also a sign that coordination can be improved and usually when you watch people dance, you can see that they move two or three body parts all at the same time and that requires having good body control so that's why we need to develop it. If you move for example your feet and nothing else, you will look very stiff dancing so that's why we need to develop coordination so everything looks natural. I will demonstrate using videos of Michael, one of my students in the program because I'm sure you've seen me dance plenty of times so I'm sure you're pretty bored with that so Michael when he started, he was just able to move one thing at a time, it was just a little bounce, a little knee bend, he couldn't coordinate his different body parts and it doesn't look interesting, you can see that he's doing the same thing over and over so when we developed his coordination, he was able to move more and more body parts and thanks to this, his movements stopped looking stiff and rigid and Michael said that that created more freedom for him, he can now express himself without feeling kind of limited in his body. Number three is ability to freestyle, to improvise because when you go to a party, to a wedding, to a club, a bar, you're not going to start doing a memorized choreography, not if you want to look natural dancing, you're not going to perform a set of steps, a routine right because no one is doing that, you will stand out in a kind of negative way if you do that and that's because at any social event, no one is doing this so what are people doing? They're improvising, they hear the song and they can spontaneously move to it, they know which movements go with whichever part of the song, they can come up with movements on the spot, they transition randomly, it's all spontaneous. When you freestyle, you have to be able to transition between those movements without putting much thought into it and that's not easy. So people who you see on the dance floor who dance seamlessly without thinking, without focusing on what to do, that's what they're doing, they're freestyling and that is a totally different style than choreography where the entire sequence of steps is prepared ahead of time, that's a sequence of steps that you have to memorize, it's usually down to a specific song and it's just not applicable in just casual social settings. But all those three skills are connected and you cannot look good even if just one is missing, you have to be able to know how to do all three. And you can see here one of my clients Anna, she's moving with rhythm, she's on beat, everything is correct here, but does it look interesting? Not quite. So you wouldn't do that for the entire song, right? And here you can see Anna after 8 weeks in the program, moving not only with rhythm but she's able to coordinate different body parts together with ease, all at the same time, she has a variety of movements and she's able to smoothly connect them on the spot, she's able to smoothly transition between these moves. So these three skills are a must for being able to dance comfortably in social settings and even that's not all, there's more. Let me know if you guys want me to create part 2, I could explain all the things that you need to know to look good dancing in social settings. I also recommend watching my masterclass, it's a 45 minute training, I will include the link below where I go through everything in detail, you will know exactly what skills, how to make your freestyle look better, what is needed to look like other people dancing around you. And if you're ready to completely transform your dance skills and your confidence to dance in front of other people anytime you go out, I will include a link below in the description where you can sign up for a free consultation with me to be able to join my online program. Thank you so much for watching you guys and I'll see you in my next video!