One of the most important skills to develop as a dancer, if you want to feel free in your improvisation, is your ability to internalise the beat of the song you're listening to. After just listening to a few bars of the song, you want to form an expectation or an anticipation of when the next beat will be and not lose track of that feeling while dancing.
In this video, Ali takes you through one of his favourite exercises that you can use to develop your ability to internalise the beat.
We also want to give a shout out to our friend An Duc Dang from Berlin who introduced us to this idea many years ago.
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With over a decade of experience, Kris and Ali know how to break down complex information into logical and easy-to-execute bits for their students. After teaching students from around the globe they’ve managed to distill the essential knowledge that will work for you no matter where you are from or how much prior dance experience you’ve had.
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Lindy Hop is a Black American artform; knowing more about its cultural heritage will help you appreciate what you're learning so much more. Here are a few resources to get you started.
The History and Culture page on our website includes a series of short videos that give you an introduction into important topics in the history of Lindy Hop:
swingstep.com/courses/history-of-lindy-hop/
The Lindy Hop and Anti-Racism page is about where we are now as a global Lindy Hop community and what you can do to honour the culture of the dance, plus links to other organisations actively working on these issues so you can find out more and support them:
swingstep.com/this-is-swing/lindy-hop-and-anti-racism/
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