First, 10/10 use of animation! Did you make them? If yes, I’m so impressed! If not, still a cool integration.
I love dancing and so reading your breakdown was so cool. You really broke it down into a science without losing the art. I think it’s awesome you’re leaning into a new experience that many people do find too uncomfortable to continue. Claire in FTO dances too, I think we’ll need a Find The Others dance crew soon.
“If I had only considered my beginner experience to decide if it was worth it, that would have been a mistake.” THIS hit the nail on the head. I want to remember it forever.
AHAHAHA FUNNY you should mention that because although I did not make those animations (they're from juggling wikipedia), I am currently in animation school! I'm keeping a twitter thread of everything I've made over the past few months here:
Literally reading this after coming home from a partner dance class and I relate to so much! Especially the part about embracing 'dancer' as part of your identity. So often I hear people dismissing dance because "it's not for them" or "they were born with two left feet". I did too! But being open to the idea of actually enjoying it makes such a big difference.
As for getting better, I have often found that when I am making a mistake, it is often a specific technical problem like not angling my toe correctly or having the weight on the wrong foot. Yet the overall process of improvement feels like an entirely subconscious affair; once specific issues are resolved the entire dance just becomes a sequence of movements and feelings that just feel "right". So describing "how to dance" can be sometimes be highly technical and detailed and other times be completely intuitive and indescribable. Fascinating.
"Instead, practicing tricks made me better at the basic pattern!" is a fascinating insight, like sometimes the specific trick unlocks a mental or tactile pathway that wasn't there before that makes the basic pattern easier
First, 10/10 use of animation! Did you make them? If yes, I’m so impressed! If not, still a cool integration.
I love dancing and so reading your breakdown was so cool. You really broke it down into a science without losing the art. I think it’s awesome you’re leaning into a new experience that many people do find too uncomfortable to continue. Claire in FTO dances too, I think we’ll need a Find The Others dance crew soon.
“If I had only considered my beginner experience to decide if it was worth it, that would have been a mistake.” THIS hit the nail on the head. I want to remember it forever.
AHAHAHA FUNNY you should mention that because although I did not make those animations (they're from juggling wikipedia), I am currently in animation school! I'm keeping a twitter thread of everything I've made over the past few months here:
https://twitter.com/JoshuaLelon/status/1654220700041850881?s=20
(Those last few are School of Motion assignments, so I didn't do the art, but I did make them move!)
> You really broke it down into a science without losing the art. I love dancing and so reading your breakdown was so cool.
GOSHHHH yea I can tell you were in sales, you sure know how to throw a compliment at someone!! I like to think I can balance that well =)
OMG YES, FTO DANCE CREW 2023. I wonder when we can all be in the same location to MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
Literally reading this after coming home from a partner dance class and I relate to so much! Especially the part about embracing 'dancer' as part of your identity. So often I hear people dismissing dance because "it's not for them" or "they were born with two left feet". I did too! But being open to the idea of actually enjoying it makes such a big difference.
As for getting better, I have often found that when I am making a mistake, it is often a specific technical problem like not angling my toe correctly or having the weight on the wrong foot. Yet the overall process of improvement feels like an entirely subconscious affair; once specific issues are resolved the entire dance just becomes a sequence of movements and feelings that just feel "right". So describing "how to dance" can be sometimes be highly technical and detailed and other times be completely intuitive and indescribable. Fascinating.
"Instead, practicing tricks made me better at the basic pattern!" is a fascinating insight, like sometimes the specific trick unlocks a mental or tactile pathway that wasn't there before that makes the basic pattern easier