Dancing and spinning
does anyone dance? I dance and i am prety good at it, and i was wondering if anyone else did. As i am learning to spin (i am just a beginer) I want to apply dance to it so i can do both at the same time.....im just looking for some tips if anyone else does it.
g'day all, corey
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Dancing and spinning
Well here's my advice for what it's worth:
erm, get a load of moves locked down including a couple of ways of changing direction (see the rotational reverse tutorials and forums)
learn to vary paces of spinning so that you can get some beats in time with the music
learn how to break patterns (eg. separating the poi out either side of a weave to get extra beats to help keep time)
try and find any combinations which have 4 beats (as most music is a repetitive 4/8 bt structure
) [having said this, my favourite is a 2bt weave going through the buzzsaw plane which is 6bts but the 4 'weave' beats take half the time of the buzzsaw ones because I isolate them slightly]
if you're gonna be spinning on crowded dancefloors use shorter strings and learn stuff in the buzzsaw plane (between your arms) so you don't get angry people on your back!
watch other spinners and see what looks good when they spin music, if you can't do it and can't see what they're doing then just ask them what they were doing and if they can do it more slowly (although some stuff still makes no sense!)
hope this helps!!!
Dancing and spinning
What do you mean by 'dance'? I'm not a trained dancer, but I try to 'dance' with my poi when I can. I have friends who are trained modern dancers, and they definitely take a very different approach. Likewise, another friend is more of a club dancer, and she has a style appropriate to that.
Dancing and spinning
yea i tend to wobble about a bit when i spin to music, i find it fun to change tempo alot, try to get the stalls popping out in time to the music, and try and let your poi bounce around on top of the beats, flip em about alot. butterflys are good.
but i cant dance.
Dancing and spinning
hey, thanks for the advice. and for clairification by dancing i mean like jazzl dancing. Like doing a turn combination or a pirouette, while spinning the poi. or, like doing under the leg stuff while i do a kick. as im describing it, it sounds kind of corney, but i think it could be cool. haha. ill post back and let u know how its going. thanks again for the info.
corey
Dancing and spinning
Getting the body into flow of the music helps immensely with my Poi. For me, different styles of music bring out different types of dance. As I move my body differently, I find my Poi begin to have something of a mind of their own - moving in patterns I know but pieced together in a way I neither understand nor need to. Thus I find the more types of music I Poi to, the broader my vocabulary becomes.
Namaste,
Soul
Dancing and spinning
I think people with formal dance training have a tremendous advantage when it comes to spinning poi. You know how to carry your body a certain way, and stringing a series of moves together is often effortless. I've heard stories of dancers picking up poi, watching someone demonstrate a sequence to them, and learn it in a matter of minutes.
Most of the talk online is technical -- covering moves and tricks... but the reality is that the dancers who can do these moves AND infuse them with the flow of dance are the ones that end up looking amazing on stage.
Hard to do jazz hands though... might have to try a few different handles/grips!
Dancing and spinning
orbit, thats so funny "jazz hands" rock ok. lol.
Dancing and spinning
hey the message before was from nicopia we forgot to switch to her name before she posted, just to avoid any confusion
Dancing and spinning
turning
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learn to do your favorite poi moves forward AND reverse then practice spinning one way, turning your body 180 with your best dance move, then spinning in the oppisite way. To keep things smooth your poi will be going in the same direction as observed by someone watching you.. just.. when you rotate 180 they'll be spinning the oppisite direction to you. So, to prepare for these oppisiite-ly spinning poi you'll have to know that move (or a similar move) in the oppsite direction.
make sure you can turn from forward to reverse left and right AND reverse to forward left and right (thats 4 diff transitions). .. this will insure that when you feel in the music that its time to turn, your body can flow with it and wont have to stop and think "how do i do that cool transition.. oh yes.. i have to turn to the left"--ridgid pattern-- ---left turn setup--- execute -- yesss (oh wait.. no)
leap into the air as you turn! start running backwards after you turn... be the dancer you always wanted, but now with poi!
uhm.. yes.. hope this helped...