Tag: Dance
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Emotional, Physical and sometimes Erotic Labor: Dance Instructor (DI) culture in the Philippines

Dance and cultural anthropologists would surely be interested in the Dance Instructors (DIs) of the Philippines, some foreigners perceive them as thinly veiled sex workers, while others as part of the not so well respected entertainment class. As for me I’m two parts, am one but also an observer as someone who’s not normally considered…
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How to do CRAZY healing while dancing

STEP 1: please do not care. Throw dat expectation out of the window. Please do not give a shit about how spiritual exorcising your inner madonna and angst hoe is gonna be. Just, there is no place for that, today you’re just gonna be crazy. STEP 2: pick which dancing monkey, resonates the most…
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how partner dance is a way to awakening

I’m teaching a partner dance, kizomba this thursday(TODAY!) and it’s everything I hope for. I’ll actually be teaching something I’m very passionate about, and competent in to locally famous hiphop dance teachers here in the Philippines. But what I’m trying to communicate here is beyond form, and in the simplest language. this. I hope my…
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Tips for dancers/artists in exploring freestyle..

or seeking a new approach 1 try to think deeply, and investigate your strongest feelings, intuitions and basic assumptions of what dance is to you. Think about your earliest or strongest memory of dancing and have a ‘knowing’ of how this affects you. This is commonly, a source of your dance. For me this…
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Dance101

P.S. Before getting into deeper levels of dance, make sure you get these common initial blocks out of the way and these things i blanket RECOMMEND to all those who are trying dance for the first time. Throw all self doubt out of the window. ALL OF IT. you are a human being with a…