What’s more important Technique or Choreography? This is a great question and one that will have many experts, teachers, coaches and students with their own opinion on. But it will help to realize that when dancing you can learn an average choreographic step within 15 minutes. As I heard in a Blackpool Congress lecture from Peter Eggleton “I can teach you a Feather step (in … [Read more...]
Step 4 – The Missing Step
Sometimes I look back and think how crazy it is that my wife and I literally quit our jobs, sold up and moved to the London to learn to dance. I also think how grateful I am to have learned and developed the awareness of how to make goals and dreams become my reality. Sure there were a lot of sacrifices and a lot of heartache along the way but it was worth it. The … [Read more...]
Step 3 – Your Relationship to Practice Defines Your Dancing
In Geoff Colvin's book "Talent is Overrated", a highly suggested read, his research and study of the worlds most outstanding Achievers in business, sport, art, music and professional careers uncovered on of the most outstanding findings, that I believe to be important for you. His research proved that no matter what field you enter into that the secret to world class … [Read more...]
Step 2 – Target Your Dance Goals and Hit Them
When I was 19 I hired Bob Proctor from the hit movie The Secret to be my mentor and coach for over a year. This was around the same time I decided not to go to university but become a dancer and travel the world dancing. It was a very ambitious goal, to decide to become a dancer, because at that age I had been dancing for about 1 year and had no predisposed dancing talent as … [Read more...]
Step 1 – Inspiration (and Perspiration)
Your road to becoming the best dancer you can be is going to be littered with mistakes, errors and failures, sometimes overwhelming failures. So why on earth would you put yourself through it? Why do we willingly do this to ourselves as dancers? Surely there would be easier things to do. There in lies the secret. You were not born to be mediocre or to live a life full … [Read more...]
