Google Dance

Okay, so you know my site is all about dance.  But what you might not have known is that it’s about all kinds of dance, and today’s featured type of dance is strictly FGO (for geeks only!) Still, I hope you learn a little something and enjoy it, too.

So what the heck is a Google Dance anyway?  It’s not what you’re thinking.  Or at least, it’s not what I was thinking!  It doesn’t involve music or human body motion at all.  It’s really not even a dance, just some geeky update stuff that Google does once in a while.  

Get Inspired: Incense, Classes, and More

I cannot think of a single dancer or choreographer who does not go through a dry spell of coming up with ideas of new dance pieces. It happens to everyone. Dancing is a lot like writing. Writers tend to get writer’s block, and like that you can be in the middle of creating the next great dance, and then it happens. You have nothing to add, not a thing to contribute, and you feel defeated and down. Well, don’t feel that way. Like I already mentioned. It happens to everyone at some point. There are ways to overcome this little road block and get new ideas to finish creating or start creating your new dance routine. Here are some of those very ideas.

Avoid Simple Competition Mistakes

Now, I am not a competitive dancer anymore, and I do not teach any competitors, but I grew up competing and I know what it can feel like to see a score that doesn’t seem to be as high as you had expected.  As an instructor, it is important to take the scorecard notes and remarks seriously so that the next time around your team of dancers will be able to further succeed in the competitive dance world.  So often instructors make common, yet avoidable, mistakes when creating routines for competitions.  If you feel like there are no mistakes, turn to the scorecards and see how the judges feel.  Some of the most common mistakes of competitive dance routines are below.

Introduction to Tap

What a wonderful world it would be if everyone just walked around in their tap shoes and broke out into a tap dance at any random moment!  You know, like in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies?  That is my dream quite frankly, and while many of you may think I am completely nutty that just means you have never tap danced.  I love to see people who put on tap shoes for the first time.  It’s like they are shocked and amazed at the noise that comes out from their feet.  Tap is by far my most favorite style of dance, especially to teach.

For those who are looking into starting tap, or just plain interested in it, here is a list of some common tap steps and a description.  Basic steps in tapped are combined to form the “larger” steps that we typically see when watching a show or recital.  Some of the names here can be called other things also, but I just use what I have heard most.

Dance Inspires

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance…”  -Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4.

Dancing is so important that it is even included in the Bible.  What joy!  I hope that you yourself have experienced the phenomenal feelings that you can get just from dancing in some way or another.  If you have not, then turn on some kind of music and move!  Anyone who has met me knows that at any moment I could break out into a dance.  I just can’t control my urge to dance because it is such a joyous and happy feeling.