Kann jeder tanzen lernen?
Ja, da bin ich mir ziemlich sicher! Es würde mich sehr interessieren, jemanden kennen zu lernen, bei dem alle bisherigen Lernmethoden keinen Erfolg gehabt hätten.
Manchmal liegt es auch an einem unvollständigen Verständnis dafür, was Tanzen ist, dass man denkt, man könnte es noch nicht. Grundsätzlich kann jeder schon etwas, das man als Tanzen bezeichnen kann, das gilt es dann wahrzunehmen und zu erweitern.
Habe vor einiger Zeit einen kleinen Text dazu geschrieben, Englisch ist hoffentlich kein Problem :) Es taucht der Begriff "Salsa" auf, aber das Prinzip ist auf alle Bereiche des Tanzens anwendbar.
Hoffentlich hilft's! Los geht es hier:
Welcome, new Dancer!
As you think about entering the World of Dance,
the first thing you will want to know is:
You don't need to know any special steps to do any kind of dance.
Dancing is about relating yourself to the music you hear,
with your movement.
And here, it's all yours, it's all free - You are the dancer.
You choose how you want to relate to the song that is playing. You decide, not anyone else.
The more you know the music you want to dance to - the better your relationship to the music is - the more you will be able to relate to that music with your movement.
To predict what you may hear next - and place a movement into your prediction.
Try it now: Choose a song you know well, choose any movement you have under good control, predict what you will hear next in your song and place the movement into your prediction. Repeat.
The more you know about how to move your body, the more possibilities you will have to express your relationship to the music played. The more you are aware of your body, the less it will work against your desires. It's true: Uncontrolled movement can hurt yourself or others.
Try it now, again: Choose a song that worked for the previous excercise and choose a movement, about which you normally do not think consciously. Try to place the movement into your music. Repeat until satisfied. Explore more of your bodie's movement capabilities.
So dancing is first and foremost about knowing the music you want to dance to. About having a relationship to the music and wanting to express this relationship with your movement.
Then it's about knowing your body and using it's abilities, refining them as desired. Being aware of everything you are doing, at all times.
It's true:
You now know everything there is to know about dancing.
So if you want to learn how to dance Salsa or Ballroom or anything else, take this knowledge into your next dance class.
What you want there is to make relationship with Salsa music, with stories and feelings from a cultural context that may be foreign to you. Get to know those people and their story.
You want to _feel Salsa_.
It's not about steps.
Take the steps you get, but take them as examples, not as rules. If the steps are "too easy", focus on details, work on your style, engage as much of your body as you can - and then engage even more!
If the steps are too complicated, you are in the wrong class - there is always a way which you can understand immediately as dancing is built on common sense. Try a musicalFlow® class in your town.
If you dance with a partner, look at the top of this text -
Your partner is a dancer, too.
With their own skills, their own feelings and their own decisions about their dancing - be kind to respect that.
Grant the other (at least) the same freedom as you grant yourself and you will experience the most complete harmony.
Now have fun and repeat:
I know everything there is to know about dancing!
Go and enjoy Your DANCING!! I bet you will
Viel Spaß beim Tanzen!