LEARNING LOVE YOURSELF CHOREOGRAPHY BY YOOJUNG LEE
Assalamualaikum Lovely People!
It's been a while since I posted my last english article. Somehow the feel comes for this one. Wish me luck. ;)
Couple of weeks ago, I posted a video on my Instagram that changed my perspective a lot. Please have a look..
If you scroll down my Instagram posts before, you will never ever find me dancing. Even the fact is I always love dancing and watching people dance. Dancing or watching people dance give me so much positive energy. When I dance on the beat, I feel like communicating how I feel and at the same time make me relieve, relax, and happy. It's an instant mood booster for me. So sometimes when I found a good choreo with a good song, I eagerly learn the steps.
Unfortunately, mostly like other beginner and non-profesionnal dancers out there, I got the fear. The fear of looking myself dancing badly, the fear of people see and point out my wrong steps, the fear of people bashing me for not good enough, not try hard enough. It's even worse when my lil bit perfectionist ego come. I feel like I have to be perfect on my first ever dancing video. The background set, the lighting of the video, the outfit, everything! The pressure is too real for me. It always made me postponing to record my dance. Untill the day comes and I feel like "Alright, Now or Never!"
I set my camera and tripod, looked for a good spot, put everything ready, positioned myself, then I hit the record button. The music started and I was like "5, 6, 7.....(stopped myself)". I looked around me and there were some people around. They did their things and I thought no one even noticed me trying to record a dance on the rooftop. But it still freezed me out. I couldn't even look at the camera. I pretended looking at the scenery behind me.
But then my perfectionist ego came again. The sun was going to set soon and I didn't even take a single video. I will regret this if the sun set. I thought clearfully, made up my mind, then I tried to record again.
As you may expected, my first-take was sooo bad. Like I was off the beat, I did it shyly, and I didn't even smile. What you see in the video above is my genuine smile after couple of take. I took like 6-7 shot untill I got the feeling, enjoying the steps, and got that smile. :)
After I got that smile, I realized that some people were watching me. Somehow this time I felt more confidence with myself and didn't mind that. I felt like "I can do this!" and then I took my last shot.
This particular experience make me realize that the hardest part of this thing was not learning the choreo but building the self-confidence and self-esteem that I am ready, I can do this, I believe on myself, nothing's wrong with recording a dance on the rooftop. As the choreo itself is from beginner class, it is relatively pretty easy.
I was learning Love Yourself choreography by Yoojung Lee like 3 days in row and then practicing over and over everyday. I think everyone have their own way to learn dance steps. For me, usually it is pretty much like this.
The first day, I was just trying to copy the steps directly from my laptop screen. I played the dance video using Gom Player, I mirrored it, then I tried to as close as them dancing. I played the video on the loop for hours. I tried to memorize the step, what to do after what.
Then on the second day, I slowed down the video using Gom Player too. I learned the detail moves, like hands, head, and expressions. After that I broke the steps to some parts based on the song lyrics. (Somehow it helps me learn faster than breaking it to 8 counts).
Third day came, I tried to dance with less looking at the video. I recalled the steps and sang the song by myself to excercise my timing and got on beat. After that I practice like every single day at least once to get the feeling and confidence. That's it. Sounds simple but need some works.
This is actually my second attempt to record the dance and share it online. The first one, I literally deleted it after the first watch. I lacked of power, I couldn't smile, I know I didn't enjoy it. That kind of thing couldn't be share online. It's embarassing. Practice and practice really make it better and build my confidence.
Ah, I think to know what is your learning style will help you a lot in learning dance moves. I am an auditory-kinesthetic learner. I feel like learning by listening someone's instruction verbally (like when an instructor explaining the steps in a dance class) plus doing/copying what they do help me learn faster. In this case, I was just learning by doing.
There is a new dance practice that I want to learn from 1Million Dance Studios and fortunately has a tutorial. It is Sing - PTX choreography by Lia Kim. I've been learning the second part of the tutorial. Her explanation of the dance really help me a lot to learn the dance. I hope I can share my dance practice of this one soon! ^^
It's been a while since I posted my last english article. Somehow the feel comes for this one. Wish me luck. ;)
Couple of weeks ago, I posted a video on my Instagram that changed my perspective a lot. Please have a look..
If you scroll down my Instagram posts before, you will never ever find me dancing. Even the fact is I always love dancing and watching people dance. Dancing or watching people dance give me so much positive energy. When I dance on the beat, I feel like communicating how I feel and at the same time make me relieve, relax, and happy. It's an instant mood booster for me. So sometimes when I found a good choreo with a good song, I eagerly learn the steps.
Unfortunately, mostly like other beginner and non-profesionnal dancers out there, I got the fear. The fear of looking myself dancing badly, the fear of people see and point out my wrong steps, the fear of people bashing me for not good enough, not try hard enough. It's even worse when my lil bit perfectionist ego come. I feel like I have to be perfect on my first ever dancing video. The background set, the lighting of the video, the outfit, everything! The pressure is too real for me. It always made me postponing to record my dance. Untill the day comes and I feel like "Alright, Now or Never!"
I set my camera and tripod, looked for a good spot, put everything ready, positioned myself, then I hit the record button. The music started and I was like "5, 6, 7.....(stopped myself)". I looked around me and there were some people around. They did their things and I thought no one even noticed me trying to record a dance on the rooftop. But it still freezed me out. I couldn't even look at the camera. I pretended looking at the scenery behind me.
But then my perfectionist ego came again. The sun was going to set soon and I didn't even take a single video. I will regret this if the sun set. I thought clearfully, made up my mind, then I tried to record again.
As you may expected, my first-take was sooo bad. Like I was off the beat, I did it shyly, and I didn't even smile. What you see in the video above is my genuine smile after couple of take. I took like 6-7 shot untill I got the feeling, enjoying the steps, and got that smile. :)
After I got that smile, I realized that some people were watching me. Somehow this time I felt more confidence with myself and didn't mind that. I felt like "I can do this!" and then I took my last shot.
This particular experience make me realize that the hardest part of this thing was not learning the choreo but building the self-confidence and self-esteem that I am ready, I can do this, I believe on myself, nothing's wrong with recording a dance on the rooftop. As the choreo itself is from beginner class, it is relatively pretty easy.
I was learning Love Yourself choreography by Yoojung Lee like 3 days in row and then practicing over and over everyday. I think everyone have their own way to learn dance steps. For me, usually it is pretty much like this.
The first day, I was just trying to copy the steps directly from my laptop screen. I played the dance video using Gom Player, I mirrored it, then I tried to as close as them dancing. I played the video on the loop for hours. I tried to memorize the step, what to do after what.
Then on the second day, I slowed down the video using Gom Player too. I learned the detail moves, like hands, head, and expressions. After that I broke the steps to some parts based on the song lyrics. (Somehow it helps me learn faster than breaking it to 8 counts).
Third day came, I tried to dance with less looking at the video. I recalled the steps and sang the song by myself to excercise my timing and got on beat. After that I practice like every single day at least once to get the feeling and confidence. That's it. Sounds simple but need some works.
This is actually my second attempt to record the dance and share it online. The first one, I literally deleted it after the first watch. I lacked of power, I couldn't smile, I know I didn't enjoy it. That kind of thing couldn't be share online. It's embarassing. Practice and practice really make it better and build my confidence.
Ah, I think to know what is your learning style will help you a lot in learning dance moves. I am an auditory-kinesthetic learner. I feel like learning by listening someone's instruction verbally (like when an instructor explaining the steps in a dance class) plus doing/copying what they do help me learn faster. In this case, I was just learning by doing.
There is a new dance practice that I want to learn from 1Million Dance Studios and fortunately has a tutorial. It is Sing - PTX choreography by Lia Kim. I've been learning the second part of the tutorial. Her explanation of the dance really help me a lot to learn the dance. I hope I can share my dance practice of this one soon! ^^
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