Happy Labor Day!

You read that right. This Labor Day, put forth your best effort to improve your dancing by challenging yourself and participating during classes as we teach you the steps so you can become the dancer of your dreams. Follow us as we continue develop and work on our dance moves together; it's the American way!

Everybody needs to practice if they want to get better, and depending on their areas of weakness, everyone needs to do different things. Once weariness sets in, many dancers may discover that they are ahead of the music, that they gaze at the floor, that they are unable to move their bodies as we would like them to, or that they lose balance, making a turn or performing challenging.

Practice accelerates learning, allowing you to see the dancing in your head, develop the necessary muscle strength and flexibility, and comprehend other people's movements. Dancers have many fundamental skills that must be combined, many positions and poses, so you must know how one pose changes into another.  Knowing this helps you understand the overall flow of dancing.

At home, you can develop your dancing. Practice the balance of your body with very slow music to train your body gradually, and able to make stable movements. Dancing is very similar to a song and if the tempo is fast, a mistake is covered up and goes unnoticed. But if the tempo is slow, your struggles become visible and the audience will likely see the offset of your body balance.

Freeze dancing is a fantastic way to improve your abilities because it uses varying speeds and abrupt stops that let you develop quick reflexes. Many people practice their dance moves in front of the mirror to help them bring out their best qualities regardless of their surroundings. This enables you to dance and verify the routine visually, however, your daily life as a dancer involves being on stage. Since there are no mirrors on stage and you will only have hundreds of people watching you, your motions will get sluggish and you will grow nervous. Record yourself and review the recordings to identify where you can make improvements.

Make an effort to move comfortably. The best way to practice is to continuously perform the same motion or step throughout the full song without losing quality. At the conclusion, the movement will come naturally to you. And at that moment, thanks to the newly developed muscle memory, your brain learns how to cut out the extraneous portions and use it more effectively.

Practice techniques intentionally and your abilities will undoubtedly increase as you deliver them.