Dance Magazine (2)

1 R E F L E C T I N GFeburary 2022/ Vol III/ E(eliven)laine Times RESILIENCE 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 SEAN LEW A biography of a young and talented dancer who deserves more credit. 7 FLOWY DANCE MUST-HAVES All outfits you may just want to add to your dance cart! 13 WHEN TO BREAK Tips on when you should take a break of working or push through.

SEAN LEW 03 Table of contents 07 A beautiful biography of an unrecognized 11 artist who's been in the industry for years. It's 15 2 his time to sReflect Resilience. FLOWY DANCE MUST-HAVES Need a cute outfit for your upcoming recital? A list of professional dancers favorites so you can take some wisdom! Good Luck! ARE YOU STRETCHING? Ah. . . The act of stretching is so relaxing! Why don't you try making it a routine! Here's some positions to try next time! AN ELEGANT HISTORY Some knowledge about the start of ballet! TA quick History lesson for all who's attention is grabbed.

3 SEAN LEW A Deserved Biography His name is Sean Lew and he’s been in the industry since he was eleven in 2012! Sean was born November 25, 2001 and started taking dance classes just 4 years later until he started competitions a year later. He's been on a lot of shows starting at a young age, due to getting inspired by both his sisters, Sarah and Siris, as they danced in competitions and he used to go to them. His first premiere was a video of him doing a funky jazz routine, but just two years later Sean would receive fame. He was only twelve when a video of him dancing to Lady Gaga’s song ‘Applause’ got famous overnight. Sean was then offered loads of promotional deals and was even offered to go on the Queen Latifah Show, as well as join Sia, a musical artist, in her film named ‘The Greatest’ Featuring Maddie Ziegler. However, Due to his worldly achievements, he couldn’t actively engage in education and finished high school at 15 years old. He later found stability and went to college to pursue his education more. He now lives in LA, California where he was born, and continues to make dance videos and post them to the popular app named youtube.

A DANCE The background and appearance of the dance CRITIC was really interesting and fun, a lot of fellow dancers sat in a circle watching them work. I thought it was I will be reviewing \"False Confidence” by useful as everyone had a view and the dancers had a Noah Kahan that Sean Lew and Kaycee Rice did in lot of space plus the element of the cameraman. He a contemporary dance. The both of them are found food lighting for them so everything worked out mimicking each other's moves throughout a lot quite well. However, it is still super simple and not the with hard and sharp movements. best dance background or filming quality I’ve seen. The entire dance looked really thorough After everything, everyone in the room clapped and the dancers looked super comfortable There was a huge amount of dancers just watching dancing together. Their motions were fluid and and clapping to their favorite part since the dance the dance really did bring out a lot of the music. video was filmed in front of the whole dance company. Which is great, A dance should always pair with It was very inclusive and everyone was paying a lot of the theme of the music and these two worked attention. super well together. However, I found that some of the moves were unnecessary so it made those Kaycee Rice, the accompaniment, was perfect parts of the dance seem sloppy and not like they with his dance. They had coordinated all of that belong. together and he wasn’t alone at all so it wasn’t awkward. Plus, the whole dance routine, they reflected They performed really well, it was super each other’s movements on the perfect beats. Yeah entertaining, almost like watching a movie very Kaycee really did good with him, they work so well fast. All the moves looked memorized and just the together. facial expressions added into the dance really bring out some of the emotion in the music. Also, Nearing the end when the two of them were everything was on beat so it was satisfying to perfectly synced and she used him as support to watch. actually climb the air, it just looked so fluid and fun. I also really enjoyed the convenient use of each other, I am a slightly bit annoyed by the outfits. plus the audience was responsive at the time and it They’re really simple in a way that’s just not fitting just matched the energy presented. the theme. The clothes were all black and the girl had on leggings and Sean had on sweatpants so At the very end, they pulled the motion of the elements of fashion were not really in their looping through each other, but the pull away was favor. It’s a two because I like how they looked sloppy and choppy so it broke up that flow they had comfortable but I hate how I was almost bored by just tried to make. It was super unnecessary and I was the appearances they chose. left unsatisfied in general as it ended. \"False Confidence\" 3

REFLECTING YOUR MOVES 4 Why do all those dance clinics have mirrors right? All you need to do is the moves of a dance and try your hardest, so why should I have to look at myself?” The answer to this is very simple, so I’ll try to explain it in a way that lets everyone know just how important it is to see yourself dance. Here it is, you can not predict the way YOUR body will look when you dance. Since everyone is different, you need to be able to see and perfect your imperfections and talents. For example, maybe you need to work on the flexibility of your feet but the video instructor you could be following along with will need to work on their timing. The aspect of dancing is so unpredictable and unique for every person that it’s most important to focus on personal goals and flaws instead of getting distracted on ‘how much better’ another dancer may be. So, in order to properly see how you should be setting up those goals, mirrors and slowing following motions of the dance style of your choice can help you see the natural habits you may have that you need to change. Mirrors give you a 3D view of your body and the most accurate image of yourself you can get. Dancing is such a visual art, so remember to see yourself visually before you let your audience! Reflect your resilience!

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