Sam wrote:
Hey Jardy, I have another question. Some of the house dancers I really like, such as yourself, Serial Stepperz, and our local Seattle Circle of Fire/SoulShifters, come from a bboying background. Can you talk a bit about how you've mixed some elements of (bboying) footwork and power into your house, what works and what doesn't in terms of staying true to the feeling of house?
House is the kind of style where you can add pretty much anything to it as long as you stay true to the house feeling. My suggestion if you want to add bboying to your house is to make it so that your bboying matches the style of your house dance. You don't want to look like there's an obvious switch between two styles; you gotta keep your flow. What I do is I keep my bboying short and sweet - a flare here, a swipe there, coffee grind to dolphin dive, it's all good. Oh, and ending all your bboy moves with a dolphin dive seems to help flow back into house, too.