Werk It

First of all, it has been five six years since I have performed in front of a large audience. How I wish that I'm still 20+ pounds lighter, much more flexible, and my mind is not full of confusion that I can still memorize 8 sets of 8-counts in one day without missing a single beat. Times have changed indeed. However, once a person has learned techniques, they are easy to spot on other people. So for the record, let me just say that the difference between amateur dancers and professional dancers is stage presence.

The basic rules that I think people should know when dancing in front of a large audience are:

• Don't look around at what others are doing
  
• Don't lipsync to the music
  
• Don't look down
  
• Don't fidget with your clothes/hair while dancing

But for me, I know you're goOoOod when you can dance your steps and do one of the following:

1. Make eye contact with the audience.
2. Make eye contact with a single person in the audience and just dance to that person. If you can make that person squirm in his/her seat, baby, you're goOoOod.

For the past two years, I've been attending a hiphop dance showcase once a year. I like to see what's going on and it's good entertainment. I don't even mind going to them alone. The "kids" who dance hiphop these days are awesome and I'm glad that they have the chance to start while they're young. However, since they learn from their peers/tv, I feel that technique is not emphasized enough. It's only bugging me because they are awesome, but they are going to be ten times more awesome if they *perform* rather than just *dance*. Werk it with a capital W. :)

(Let me just ramble on about what happened today)

So it was also during a hiphop dance show last year did I make peace with the fact that Dancing King is "playing for the same team" as I am and it was also during this time did I cross off the idea of wanting a significant other with a hiphop dance background. Well, let me just say that the hiphop hormones are back. HaHa! I saw him last year and I saw him this year also. He's clean cut, as light as I am, and frankly, he looks like a nice boy that I can bring home to mother dearest. LoL. He's not one of the popular guys and he's more of a breaker. But with my luck, he's probably way younger than me. Tsk. Tsk. I'm still searching for that hiphop dancer that's clean cut, in his mid-late twenties, a college-degree-holder, who can read and write, who's roughly 5'10," and...who is 100% straight. The last requirement is the hardest to fulfill. ;P