Wow, finally right? Part 4 of the Musicality Series goes over the most important part of house dance: FEEL. I'd hate to spoil it for you, so just check it out. If you remember everything you've learned from the prior musicality tutorials, you should have a good idea of the many ways you can approach music and dance. Enjoy.Song names:
Trip To Chicago (Original Mix) - Mika Olson
Steve Bug - Jack Is Back
Hardsoul feat. Ron Carroll - Back Together (Tony Lionni Remix)
After watching the video, please tell me a couple of things:
1. Is there any part of the video that leaves you confused and needs more explaining?
2. How has the musicality series as a whole helped you with your dance?
Thanks again! And please spread the word and share this with your friends. Musicality is not just for house dancers, it's for everyone.
Click here for Part 1
Click here for Part 2
Click here for Part 3
Heyyo Jardy!
Thanks so much for these videos man. Even dancers who have a grasp of these concepts in some way need to go back and reflect on what it is we do. I believe that the different rhythmical structures and flow concepts you portrayed in these videos are invaluable; specifically your regards to riding the beat versus hitting the beat.
I think the last part you said was kinda what I was gonna ask. Like, I practice freestyle just as moving to the music, but sometimes I get a little stuck which is why I want to learn other styles like house and kind of incorporate them a little. But I did wonder whether in house freestyle if it was ok, now and then to knd of add your own movements in.
Jardy you’re amazing! Just how you explain everything.. You really want to share everything you know and I’m so grateful for your videos! You should come to Austria one day. It would be such an honour for my guys and me. I hope I can come in one of your classes sometime. You really moved me just by watching the videos. keep on doing your thing!
Thanks Jardy for taking the extra time and effort to make this 4th video right. You’ve made it very clear that house dance is not about moves and technique but rather genuine feeling and having a connection with the music itself and allowing the music to guide us into the dance.
Enjoyed the video and your dancing is so smooth. Especially like the way you spin on the first song, you make it look so easy and fun. i know musicality is not about moves, but knowing more moves makes music dancing more fun.
you make me want to get up and practice!
Yo! Bboy the Dreamer from Sao Paulo Brazil. I just watched this tutorial, and there isnt much time since i saw the others in a row. Seeing so much effort to share this pulsating, alive thing that is music in this didactic and rationalized way really made me think much about what is particular and what is universal in the subject of these tutorials. I have reached some conclusions:
Man, i am really moved by the seriousness you take in this… I see you are trying to leave a legacy here and are trying hard to make people experience your own experience and mature in dance. You are really doing a good job, and I will tell you why!
Trying to explain musicality is like trying to explain feelings. Unless we do it by comparations to the own experiences of the listener, it is just impossible. But what to do when he doesnt have many experiences in dancing? I think the teacher doesnt have control of the learning in this cases. In the end, realizing what is musicality depends on the learner. But the good thing of this tutorials is that they incubate realization (there werent other alternatives anyway). By conducting people alongside a particular view and rationalization of the dynamics of musicality, i think people are induced to give way to the feelings instead of techniques. And so far, the rationalization has been coherent and focused but not too bound, and this is better because it induces people to get the exact meaning by themselves, by experience (and it is particular to everyone in some degree).
For me, a point that was very valuable is your view about musicality and rhythm. In bboying, we talk about musicality as “killing the beat”, but i got a wider grasp of it after seeing something parallel in house (in break, i’m used to see people killing the beat with ground moves and freezes, and I felt it as something that was always executed hard, by definition. i see now how stylized it can be and got the view of it going out of and into the grooving, as separated things [i only grooved, ALWAYS…])
One thing I would like to hear is about your view on how the moves of house evolved from other things and how they are related to the feeling of house. I know this tutorials about musicality arent trying to diferentiate musicality in house from musicality in other forms of dance, but one of the things i’m trying to understand too is the uniqueness of the forms of dance I am learning. I dont know if its bad to do this and to think like this, but cant think of other explanation to the differences beetween the various styles of dancing but for a link beetween the feeling of that style of music and the feeling of moving yourself in the way that style of dance does. Am i wrong and in the end everything is personnal style and there is not such a thing like a “general way of moving yourself in a form of dance”?
Finally, one thing that maybe could make tutorials like these even more great is if you could expose us to other ways of understanding musicality, maybe by making some kind of interviews with other dancers, exchanging opinions about it and asking them about how they feel/think musicality. Maybe this idea is just silly, but it is the only thing i think could add more to this tutorials that are doing just fine, hahaha.
Well, that’s it. Keep the good work!
thDrmr