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Position:Home>Dancing> How to look graceful on stage?Question: How to look graceful on stage!? ok im doing a show on may 1 and im a horrible dancer i can turn and do all the moves but they dont look good i need major tips maybe a lesson i dance at my school im a doing a brodway and a lyrical dance broadway very upbeat lyrical sad these are the songs
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=U6PGrub3j!.!.!. http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=CaXzi6Fn9!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Too be graceful you firstly need to stop thinking about how graceful you look on stage!.!. the more you think about it the more stiff yout body will come!.!. because ur doing lyrical and broadway!.!. you have to try and fit in with the music!.!. try dancing to these songs!.!. over and over!.!. next you need to loosen up your body!.!. this time!.!. instead of sharp detailed movements!.!. try and slur it into one another!.!. for instance!.!. say if you had to do a high kick then a pirouette!.!. instead of doing a high kick then putting your legs back straight on the ground!.!. then a pirouette!.!. connect your high kick with your pirouette!.!. so after your high kick while your leg is half way in the air coming down do a pirouette!.!. im sorry if im confusing you!.!. lol!! It really is hard to explain!.!. but all you need to do is look confident!.!. and follow the beat of the music!.!. if the beat goes slow then you need to switch your body into graceful mode!.!. but when the beat is faster you need to turn your body into fast mode!.!. Hope this helped!! = ]Www@QuestionHome@Com Looking graceful, well one way to do that is with your facial expression!. If you're doing an upbeat song, then you should smile, but not a big cheesy grin though! Remember your eyes and eyebrows also give the lifting feel, smile with your eyes, it's more genuine!. Hmm as for gracefulness, flexibility helps, (if you have alot of kicks etc), also your arms shouldn't be stiff, let them flow, relax!. Hope that helps! Goodluck!Www@QuestionHome@Com You need to work on you hand movements, sometimes they looked like paws, some like guys hands, tight sharp moves!. Really work on loosing up you fingers, don't grip so tight, pretend you are elegant and use you hands as if you were a queen, a ballerina!. Something else i noticed, you shoulders were very tight!. relax, loosen them up before you go on stage!. Take a couple long deep breaths and just shake ,roll, and just loosen up the whole neck and shoulder area!. this will help everything else move smoother and nicerWww@QuestionHome@Com I can't understand why you wouldn't look good!.!.!.!.!. but with the info you've given me, is it because you just can't dance!? If so, don't think about dancing, just think about moving with the music doing the right steps!. Pretend you are in your bedroom if that helps!. The thing with me, is if I concentrate on doing the steps instead of really 'dancing' it, it doesn't look good, but if you really put personality in it and dance to your fullest, even if it doesn't look good it won't matter!. Try watching other people and really pin point their technique adn how they are doing things!. What angle they are at, how much they lean in it!. If this is not helpful, I am sorry!. It wasn't that specific!. GOOD LUCK!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com Being graceful dosnt come overnight, but you can make ur self look better by smiling and controlling every move you make on the stage!. if you are doing turns, make sure you spot, practice that b4 the performace!. if you mess up majorliy, just keep going and try to jump back in!. good luck, if you werent ready, ur teacher would tell you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Back to basics! Stretch your arms to the side!. Are they straight flat 180 degree!? Do they look graceful!? If not, put them down and try again!. Practice that 100 times! Until you look graceful!. You'll know when you "get it"!. It's useless to "do all the moves" but none of them is graceful!. Work with the basics, pay attention to your fingers and at least get a few moves graceful, then you'd be better off repeating them rather than just doing a mess up there on the stage!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Most of all, just be confident!. It will show through your entire body!. Smile and make eye contact!. Believe me, a smile can make an audience forget many things!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Take amfetamins!.I'm a terrible dancer too,but with them I become n1!.Www@QuestionHome@Com mabye you should do a bit of ballet to be more gracefulWww@QuestionHome@Com |