Katz Corner

Dance to your ” Audience “

When Comeptiting Your “Audience” Is, The Judges

When Performing Your “Audience” Are The Spectators / Public

When Socially Your “Audience” Is Your Partner!

 Stage Presence – The Basics That You Just Have To Get Right !

One:
Great performers know that the secret to a good show is to make eye contact with the crowd. Staring off into space or looking at the ground will make the audience feel as if you just aren’t into it. Even if you are giving a brilliant performance, your audience won’t be pulled into your world. Find one or three members in the crowd to “Interact” with, it would make it appear as if you’re connecting with spectators.

Two:
Make big movements and gestures, even if you feel a bit silly. Why? Because when you are on stage, even a small one, most people really can’t see you. Dancing around, using your hands, even swinging your head, can make you appear as if you are really into it.

Three:
Wearing the right kind of costume can be the main catalyst of a great stage performance and can make or break audience reaction. Like in any aspect of life, clothes can make the man, and our attire says a lot about us. Feeling like you represent your chosen performance style will make you more confident, which will carry over into your stage presence.

Four:
Don’t be afraid to get into it, in fact, people go nuts when they can tell you are really feeling your performance. In the industry, we call it “getting ugly with it!” This simply means that you shouldn’t be afraid to “mess up your hair or nails” as it were, when it comes to putting on a good show. Even at your most nervous, always try your best to appear confident—confidence can make a mediocre performer grab a crowds attention.!!

In My Opinion There Are Three Types Of Dancing

- Performance
- Competitive
- Social
These Situations Should Govern How You Dance And What You Do.

There Are Also Three Fundamentals Which Govern How You Dance In General
- The Floor
- Your Partner
- The Music

Think About Each One Carefully As To Why They Are Fundamental Laws And How Each One Is Fundamentally Different !!

 Statements, Quotes

• Basics, Styling & Technique Become More Important As A Dancer Becomes More Advanced, Then Patterns & Moves …..

‎”Give A Man A Fish, Feed Him For A Day.
Teach A Man To Fish, Feed Him For Life”

• Understand Your Body, Understand Yourself As A Dancers, Learn How To Train Yourself !

Ideology 1 -To Try Getting The Best Young “Swing” Dancers To Train Together From Anywhere And Everywhere To Better Our Dancing, Test And Push Ourselves, Whilst Having Fun & Making New Friends In Doing So. (* Swing – Umbrella Term For Lindy, Jive, West Coast & East Coast Swing Dancing)

Comp Vs Performance Vs Social

The Three “Types” Of Swing Dancing Explained ( By Savoy Ballroom .Com )

*Social Dancing*
Dancing in which couples dance for their own and everyone else’s enjoyment at the same time. Choreographed routines were seldom used, as every couple danced considerately in a way that took account of everyone dancing around them. Thus the bouncers would ‘correct’ anyone whose dancing they considered posed a danger to anyone else.

*Competition*
Dancing where individual couples are out to “win” and thus dancing in “opposition” to everyone else on the floor. They use as much space as they can whilst dancing primarily to impress the judges or the audience if it is being decided by their applause, Various “exhibitionist” steps are thus used in this mode which in a “social” situation would be considered “dangerous.”

*Performance*
Dancing in which one or more couples dance to entertain an audience so that it could well be “competitive” in the sense that they were vying for the applause of the audience with other performers, yet “social” in their attempt to enable the audience to “get happy!”.

*Jamming / In The Circle* Social Variation *
Dancing that was most definitely competitive in the sense of one couple trying to out-dance another, but distinctly performance in that the actual short-lived opportunity to indulge in otherwise prohibited full-out styles of the dance, were taken full advantage of.

Signature Moves

-Signature Moves Are Those In Which People Relate A Specific Action To A Specific Dancer / Couple.

-Signature Moves Do Not Have To Be Just Aerials – They Also Include Poses – Patterns – Dips Or Tricks.

-They Need To Encapsulate You As A Dancer, Have A Little Bit Of Fun Or Quirkiness To Them So The Audience In What Ever Circumstance ( Social – Comp – Performance ) Can Remember You By Or Relate To You By.

The Theory Of 10000 Hours – Mastery

Daniel Levitin in This is Your Brain on Music talks about the theory of 10,000 hours:

… ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert — in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again. Ten thousand hours is the equivalent to roughly three hours per day, or twenty hours per week, of practice over ten years. Of course, this doesn’t address why some people don’t seem to get anywhere when they practice, and why some people get more out of their practice sessions than others. But no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

So In Conclusion PRACTISE ….. Click For Further Reading

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