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Creating a structure for your freestyle before starting takes a lot of pressure away in the actual thinking process during the dance. Some people will argue that it is not freestyle anymore when you structure it beforehand. We choose to ignore these naysayers for today as we still don’t choreograph the round ahead of time. […]
Today we will answer two more questions before we move into the nitty-gritty and details of our dance business. Question #1 is: “Are you an artisan or an originator”? Question #2 is: “Are you a maker or a supporter”?Most people tend to answer these questions with Originator and Maker. That is what we want to […]
This week we will look into two important questions that help us to make our dance business a thriving one, instead of an exhausting but unsatisfying hustle. Today it is about “The Bigger Picture”. Usually, the bigger picture comes up when somebody tells us to think again, think about the future or don’t think so […]
In the last weeks, we took an in-depth look at our own skillset and calculated the numbers that we need to survive while following our passion, either as a full-time job or side-hustle. Side-hustle makes the whole thing sound more doable, which is great, but it will still be a major hustle. To set us […]
Yesterday I posted an article about how to plan your business when we only talk about the numbers. It was all about mapping out the road in front of you considering the financial side of things. We need to think about these points to estimate how we price our shows, products or dance classes. Mike, […]
The next step in being successful with our dance career is having a game plan. It is about knowing what to do to reach our goals money-wise and also from a satisfaction perspective. Today it is about the numbers. You need to evaluate your situation with brutal honesty and set a goal. From there we […]
Today’s topic is how to make your moves more sophisticated by adding decorations to the body parts that are not having an active role in the movement you are doing. What do I mean by active role? A leg that you are standing on has the job to support your body weight. Therefore you can […]
We already talked about the abstract work that needs to go into the creation of your sustainable dance business and rolled up the most common options you can put work into. Today I want to explore how to set up your activities for a balanced way of working. I hope you made a list of […]
Another idea that helps you explore new possibilities and transform your freestyles or choreographies is to work with imaginary attributes of the floor. What this means is you style your movement with the goal to create the illusion of dancing on a certain kind of underground. It can be defined through simple adjectives like: sticky […]
Most people who are into dance, flirt with the idea of becoming a professional dancer from time to time. While this is not the right thing for everybody, it is not too hard to pull off for someone who really wants it. With discipline, dedication and honesty about what oneself can do, it is doable, […]
Four Corners is a concept that helps us to break free of a static front and helps us to explore different directions and rotations within a step or a freestyle round. Here is how it works: We envision ourselves standing inside a square or rectangle. When dancing, we try to hit the corners of the […]
Let’s talk about attitude, more specific the attitude people bring to competitions. For the sake of my post I will refer to battle attitude as the character and manners that we display in the battle when interacting with our opponent. Everyone has his own battle attitude, that is defined by who he or she is […]
The 8-ball is a concept to create new patterns of steps based on figure eight. I heard about this idea the first time from b-boy Alieness who taught an 8-ball six step at Circle Prince Croatia. I can not remember the exact year, to be honest. While there are multiple different 8-ball steps (like the […]
In my early days of blogging I was known for sarcastic rants about every topic I disliked. I stopped this because I did not do any good. Today I have a relapse because I need to get something out. There is one thing that gets more and more uncommon in our society which leads to […]
Usually when a dancer travels to a new city you already have a contact from some dancers there who shows you around and introduces you to the best places. As I took a break from dancing in the last two years due to becoming a daddy, I am trying to catch up with what happened […]
Hip Hop is a culture that lives and thrives through the activities of its members. So far so cool. When we talk about supporting the scene or culture most people think about big things like throwing a jam, founding a crew, organising parties, teaching classes and so on. Not exactly things that everyone is going […]
It’s that time of the year again. Circle Industry is going down next weekend and the b-boy and b-girls are gathering in our small city to find out who can beat the invitational guest in 2 vs 2 or the Checkmate battle. We have an amazing lineup with the Red Bull BC One All Stars, […]
Our new short movie Puppeteer has been accepted into the catalogue of the filmfestival agency Aug & Ohr, that already represented Elsewhere at festivals around the globe. We are looking forward to an amazing festival season in 2019.
Streetwear and the Hip Hop Dance World gravitate towards each other. Very often when dancers think about creating a business, street fashion is on top of the list. While I am not the right person to say what it is, that connects those two worlds, I think that these creative young labels need more spotlight. […]
When we want something but have limited resources to make it happen, we usually find creative ways to get what we want. That is the essence of creating artificial constraints for our dance practise. Artists and creative entrepreneurs use the technique of artificial constraints to spark creativity in their work with great success. To use […]
Every great thing that happens has it’s roots somewhere. Hip hop freestyle is based on social dances and breaking took a lot from rocking and martial arts. Even krumping, which is not officially hip hop, can not deny that it has roots inside the hip hop culture. The music we krump to evolved from hip […]
Quality of movement is a term that comes up often when you are talking with professional dancers. Depending on who you are talking to, it might have a slightly different meaning, but in general it refers to how good a movement is executed. In my personal point of view this translates directly into how beautiful […]
photo from sassi / pixelio.de Pendulum is a pretty easy concepts that is very similar to Equilibrium. A pendulum goes from one side to the other and back again. So this is what we use as the guideline to create our dance. I use two versions of pendulum: Basic Pendulum: You make a move or […]