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How to become a professional dancer
Filed Under (Dance, Talking crap) by Skyblended on 29-10-2008
“How to become a professional dancer”
This topic always buzzing me around and I’m hardly answer it to myself. But there are few aspects on how to become a professional dancer which i think is true, anyway, just a 2 cents from me and no offense to anyone or any dancer out there.
To become a professional dancer doesn’t require to know all kinds of dances or how many shows had you perform. Many peoples even dancers themselves always compare with others on how good are their dance skills, how many big shows performed and bla bla bla. I’m really hate on listening to dancers that keep showing off on the shows, competitions or classes they did or doing. Well, with this kind of attitude, you had failed yourself to be a professional dancer, and this is true dude!
If a Latin dancer attempt to be a professional dancer, well, keep polishing and improved your Latin skills but not to learn more dances like Hip Hop, Breakdance, Reggae and etc. A Latin dancer is very graceful all the time when they stand on the stage and if you learned other types of dances, it probably will affect your performance and dance style, bear that in mind and it is really serious.
For Malaysia, if you ever saw a Hip Hop or Break dancers dance on Latin or contemporary dance, you can notice the weird movement and style they attempt to show. Especially in So You Think You Can Dance, I think that is the only chance you get to see those scene. As the same as a Latin dancer that trying to do Hip Hop, funky style is strongly require but you can hardly see it from them but just clean and tidy dance steps and movements they did which more to normal dance steps and movements.
Besides dance skills, a professional dancer should have a humble and willing to learn attitude all the times but not to show off and think they are the best all the times. Please, if you’re acting in such way, others will get rid of you from their crew or group and also your bad attitude will be well-known soon in this dance field. So, attitude can affect your dance life, your dance journey. Don’t ever think of showing off yourself for the first meet with a crew or any dancers hence instructors. You might get into trouble and nobody will likes you or wanna dance with you at all.
Punctuality is very important for a professional dancer for training or any performance. If you are late means late, excuses is not acceptable and of cause, bad impression on you had increase. If you know that there are traffic jam or any matters that will cause you late, try to arrange your times and start your journey early to the venue, unless there is something really bad and accident happened. Anyway, me myself is a lazy bumb and had improve a lot in punctuality unless there are unexpected jam on the highway. Gosh, i hate KL highway!
I think I have to stop here for this round, means that there will be more articles and thoughts about this topic in the future, and i hope all the dancer would consider some of my thoughts in order you to have a better and smoother dance journey for yourself.
Peace.
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