Approaching the intermediate levels

By Homer Gamiao, Palolo Valley

Possibly you did not know that as you learn your movements it is preferable to divide your dance steps into at least two equal components. The proposition of physical events moving just as music moves is what we do. It's da moosic first.

"The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part

of what one has recognized to be true."

Dancing occurs not all at once, but as an even distribution of time and space. At the very least a dance step has a beginning, the midpoint and an ending. While theoretically, dancing can be define as the personification of music, physically it is a movement of the body both between and through the feet that occurs in a period of time.

That time, of course, is found in the music and the specific character of the dance's most fundamental movement. For instance, the Foxtrot walk would be its fundamental movement and would occur over two beats of music. Timing and balance are 90% of the equation that makes dance choreography successful, that is your technique. Direction or where you put your feet is the other 10%.

"Jukebox Saturday Night" - Glenn Miller

It comes out that the students who become intimately familiar with their own personal equipment (and how it operates best,) are the dancers that become lifelong and successful cultural dancers. Those that learn only the steps as they have been taught (and usually by rote) may become frustrated with their inconsistencies or failures in their movements and give up before they have even given themselves a chance. Try to feel comfortable, don't worry too much about doing it correctly, you are not going into exhibitions, - yet,

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