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What is freestyle?
What is freestyle? I’ve see it discussed in regard to pole routines. Is freestyle basically making it up as you go along?
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That is pretty much what I think of it as. One of the challenges in freestyle is trying to link movements together and make them flow. (I’m actually getting ready to upload a freestyle!)
Also you have so much variety to work with… all the different music and mood choices. A lot of people free style more as an expression & emotional outlet. Also if you prefer making routines you could freestyle and hit upon a really interesting movement and them build on it.
I’d like to hear more people weigh in on this. I really like watching my own freestyles afterwards…it brings in a visual element that makes a lot of sense for me (I’m a painter..) but I’m also curious if how I felt while dancing to the song is reflected in my movements. I get a lot of surpises out of that. Sometimes a dance will feel great while I’m doing it, then I’ll watch what I filmed later & it looks unsynchronized or just like a different mood than I was experiencing.
Freestyling just feels great to let go and move to the music. It almost feels more like dancing at a show where you get absorbed.I’m curious how studio dancers work with it because I feel like I wouldn’t be able to fall into it the same with folks passing through.
I’m also curious…if you freestyle over and over to a certain song and find certain movements with different parts of the song and keep those and freestyle
around that do you consider that a routine or freestyling?
(hopefully not threadjacking here, just interested in the topic.)
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