Ummm...I can't dance...help!!?

Question:I'm speaking specifically about any sort of musical theater dancing. No ballet or hip hop for me. Well, i can't do those either but I specifically need help on inproving my jazz dancing. Besides taking a dance class (which I'm currently erolling in) what else can I do? Is there some magic pill?? j/k...any strengthening or stretch suggestions would be great! I love to dance, but I hate that I can't! >:[

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm speaking specifically about any sort of musical theater dancing. No ballet or hip hop for me. Well, i can't do those either but I specifically need help on inproving my jazz dancing. Besides taking a dance class (which I'm currently erolling in) what else can I do? Is there some magic pill?? j/k...any strengthening or stretch suggestions would be great! I love to dance, but I hate that I can't! >:[

OK well I'm a dance myself and i love it i have been doin it for many years!
well the best thing to do is to just keep pushing for more keep thinking one more day and i can do that one more day and i will top the class!
keep strengthen Ur techniques and it should all come naturally! well it did for me!

i think its all in the head and maybe an hour a day streching!
just trying to get further in the splitz or just doing everyday dance streches!

just keep on going never give up chick!

x0x ellabellarina x0x

I am a keen jazz dancer i came top in my country 2 years ago.
Something i regret though is my flexibility!
work on your right, left, and centre splits
also get some upper back stregnth by doing backward bridges

good luck and have fun!!
get flexible!
it will hurt but it will be worth it in the long run!!

watching music videos helps

I hate to say this, but you eithet have it or you don't. Take up something your good at...i mean, if your doing it for recreation, then go for it! I've been dancing since I was a child and enrolled in a college specifically for dance. My mom knew I was a dancer when I was a baby, because she said when music came on...I would move my body. lol

listen to the first user. PRACTICE makes perfect. There's no way around it. Im a professional bellydancer (but i also do some ballroom and latin) and it took me 2 years before i started calling myself a bellydancer. My problem was with my back bends. I had to keep shimming (shaking my hips) while holding a back bend position 20 inches of the floor. Hard but practice and determination is what made me master that move....and dance overall :)

agree with the first answer.

i learn jazz but when i never started i never did splits and trust me- i'm not very flexible.