The Dance Routine Corner
Learning to dance? This site will help you with advice on learning dance routines and new choreographies.
With you on your journey to becoming a great dancer.
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Common problems and topics covered when it comes to learning a dance routine, new steps and performing.
A good way to begin learning dancing routines is actually just to learn a couple of dance moves. There are many moves and steps that are used time and time again in dance routines.
For example, "ball change" is a step used in many dance styles, if you were learning locking you'd have to know how to do the move called the 'lock', if you're learning popping you need to know how to perform a basic pop.
Knowing how to do just a few of the basic moves in the style that you're learning makes learning routines in the same style of dance so much easier.
The more practise you have with a step, the less thinking you have to do to perform the step, it becomes kind of automatic.
So whatever style you are learning, you want to learn as many of the basic steps as possible. The types of moves and steps that are often repeated in routines.
The same move can be done many times in one routine, it can be done in different places and connected with different steps next to it to make it look different.
The good news with basic moves...is that many of them are posted on YouTube! Therefore you can familiarize yourself with them before you even take a single dance class.
Even if you have not mastered a move yet, just doing it a few times will help you the next time you go out to do it again.
You do not even need to look on YouTube. After you have done a few dance classes whether in a group or a lesson you will quickly discover which are the basic moves you'll need to pull off in any routine.
Another reason why this helps is because many steps are very similar with each other with only slight differences. And knowing how to do a similar move can make learning the new move so much easier.
So get some of those basic moves under your belt and you'll find that the routines you learn will come a lot easier once this preparation has been done.