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This Blog will contain everything that related to DANCE.
Since I like dancing too, I will share some of my favorite dance types, dance moves, famous dancers, and ofcourse some tutorials to help you learn the steps :D
I hope this blog can help you with your dancing!
Enjoy ^_^



“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” ― Martha Graham

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The moonwalk is a dance technique that presents the illusion of the dancer being pulled backwards while attempting to walk forward. A popping move, it became popular around the world after Michael Jackson executed the dance move during a performance of "Billie Jean" on Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever on March 25, 1983. It subsequently became his signature move, and is now one of the best-known dance techniques in the world.



























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"Macarena" (Spanish pronunciation: [makaɾena]) is a Spanish dance song by Los del Río about a woman of the same name. Appearing on the 1994 album A mí me gusta, it was an international hit between 1995 and 1996, and continues to have a cult following. One of the most iconic of 1990s dance music, it was ranked the "#1 Greatest One-Hit Wonder of all Time" by VH1 in 2002. The lyrics are completely original, but the music it is based on has been accused of plagiarism, coming from the song "Tengo una pena" (I have a sorrow, 1975) from the Spanish band "Desmadre 75", at the same time based on a popular children's song known as "Trabajando en las minas de pan duro" (Working in the hard bread mines).






The song uses a type of clave rhythm. The song ranks at #5 on Billboard's All Time Top 100. It also ranks at #1 on Billboard's All Time Latin Songs. It is also Billboard's #1 dance song and one of six foreign language songs to hit #1 since 1955's modern rock era began.

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A suicide is a sudden drop to a b-boy's back. They are frequently employed as finishing moves. Ideally, suicides are very flashy and painful-looking moves. Good suicides elicit exclamations of "ouch" from onlookers and can even be comical to a certain degree. They usually end with the breaker perfectly still, enhancing the image that he has injured himself. Despite appearances, different training and techniques are used to minimize the pain of suicides. A suicide is also used to demonstrate a possible ending to a conflict that groups may have with each other.

This is actually a type of bboy dance moves. The name is quite unique so I decided to search more about it. And it turns out that this move requires braveness and a bit dangerous for beginners. I don't think I can do it myself lol.





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The 5 Basics of Tutting

90 degree angles
Let’s begin with the most obvious. Tutting is based pretty much entirely on 90 degree angles. All of movements involve your elbows and wrists being at 90 degree angles to the rest of your body. This is the reason it’s called tutting. It’s like the Egyptian tut poses in all of the tombs.
Now, making 90 degree angles is harder than it sounds and a lot of people end up with what we all used to call duck tuts, where the hand is bent at the knuckles into the shape of a duck’s beak. Also, when you are doing outer tuts, there can be a tendency to not lift your elbows up to 90 degrees (to where there is a straight line from one elbow, through the shoulders, to the othe elbow). It’s HARD to lift your elbows that high. You usually feel strain in your shoulders. It wears you out. But this is the price of excellence. You gotta WORK IT OUT.

Wrist rolls
Wrist rolls were made famous by Mr. Wiggles but are used by almost all tutters. They are an incredibly amazing technique because they are super easy to do and super dope looking. They have a lot of bang for the buck.
All that wrist rolls involve is rolling your wrists so that your hand moves in a circle from one side to the other. You can throw them in at any point. You can hit an angle and then roll the wrists. Then hit another angle. Then roll the wrists. It can go on forever. You can flip it in so many ways so it never gets old. Definitely practice the wrist rolls.

Incorporating your whole body
It’s important to practice incorporating your whole body from the start because it’s really easy to turn into a stand-still tutter who doesn’t move and just moves their arms around. You might come up with cool poses, but it doesn’t have the same dope dance feel as when you use your whole body.
This is especially true for the flexers out there. They have so many incredible combos and concepts but they are usually just standing there and executing. They don’t really move or dance through their tuts.
One good way to practice this is to tut on one leg and move the other leg into tut angles while yout tut your arms around it. Bend forward, duck down, hit ground moves, bend to the side. Moving with your tuts adds a LOT to the possibilities.

Adding texture
I learned this concept from Tetris who learned it from Mori. When Mori first saw Tetris tutting, Mori told him–nice, but ADD TEXTURE. Adding texture means changing rhythms, strobing your tuts, moving at different speeds, hitting sometimes… basically, switching it up.
Tutting can get old quick if you don’t switch it up, because it can just look like tut-tut-tut-tut-swing-the-hands. But if you add a whooooooooooosh and a tick-tick-tick and a fast-slow-fast-fast-fast, people will never know what’s coming next and they will become your biggest fans.

Tut to the Beat
This should be obvious, but just in case it’s not, do your tuts to the beat of the music. The music should inspire your tutting and help you come up with new patterns and new ways of doing your existing patterns.
When you tut to the beat, the tuts flow with the music and you can really accent the music, which always gets points with the audience, the judges, and the opposite sex.
Start with basic rhythms like 1-2-3-4 and then you can work your way up to more advanced rhythms and beat freaks.

The Wrap-Up
Learning and applying the basics of any style are the way that you really become a DANCER. You can piece together 10 tut sets and do the same routine over and over and that’s cool! But to really become a bona fide tutter, you need to take the basics of the style and come up with your own ways to flip them.




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Labels: dance, dance moves, dance tutorial, finger tutting, king tut, tutorial, tutting

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The Melbourne Shuffle (also known as Rocking or simply The Shuffle) is a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s in the underground rave music scene in Melbourne,Australia. The basic movements in the dance are a fast heel-and-toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic music. Some variants incorporate arm movements.People who dance the shuffle are often referred to as rockers, due in part to the popularity of shuffling to rock music in the early 1990s.

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This blog will contain various things about many movements that scream the word 'art' or also known as dance. Not only just one type of dance, but many type of it. I will share some of my favorite dance moves, famous dancers, dance tutorials, some basic knowledge about dance, popular dance steps and many more! Hope it will be useful for everyone who read and actually try it (Y).

note: everything will be 'dance related' 

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