"Man, I'd like to be able to dance. In clubs, but also just anywhere. I just want to be that guy. Who CAN."
Putting pick up out of the picture for a second. Want to add 'dancing' to your skillset?
Then barrel through my terrible sense of humor, amateuristic editing skills and wrap your brain around the follow vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANr3jvuH7xE
Recap:
Enjoyment of dance lives mostly in the recognition of patterns.
Visual patterns
(Recurring themes your brain recognizes from movement and sight)
Auditory patterns
(Recurring themes your brain recognizes from sounds and hearing)
And
The sweetspot in between the two
Audiovisual-patterns (Recurring themes recognized in both music and movement)
1. You pick an auditory pattern (A beat or a melody)
2. You pick a visual pattern (There's a gazillion but you can pick an example like symmetry and spatial from the video)
3. Time the movement to the sounds... easiest way of which is to reproduce (sing, beatbox or humm) and then time to own reproduction (Body has an easier time of it).
4. Adhere to the following rules.
Simple rules:
- The more suggestive your movement is of causing the sounds you hear (causal illusion), or vice-versa, the prettier.
- The more patterns you strike and stack at any given time in the dance, the prettier.
- The more these stacked patterns play in on (are timed and/or relate in any way to) one another, the prettier.
Note:
This guide is not meant to be all-encompassing explanation of dance, nor is it meant to disregard feeling. It simply states that trying to explain dance through feeling (which is the 'why' and not the 'how' of the matter) is pointless.
After all, to chizzle a statue one is taught the chizzle and not the image of the thing you're chizzling.
Cheers
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