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Anna Kovalova | Latin Ballroom lesson
how to prepare your body
before music starts or even when the
music starts
um this kind of we can relate to
beginner dancers but as well
advanced dancers they
need to know before
ahead so all improvisation it's a
well-rehearsed
movement it's not just improvisation
like
like everywhere in
any subject any
profession like for example you know
like
so many right now like workshops and
courses about like
self motivation or how to create the
business how to become
like a business owner you you don't need
to just believe
and be so motivate all now i'm i'm
i know so much information i have a
business owner where i have to believe
in it
or how to make yourself and prettier or
something
i believe that i'm beautiful no it's not
enough that you only believe that you're
beautiful you need to do some steps
forward your progress
or towards your goals and you know
exactly
you need to know exactly what those
steps are
it doesn't mean like for example if i
tell you move your hips feel that you're
sexy and by the way you feel it and
you're sexy
no that's a big mistake to think so
it doesn't mean that right away some
energy
goes inside you and you will feel that
you are
you can that's like a world champion you
need to know
step by step movement action
or energy how you create the energy in
your body
to create this sexy feel or
any other type of uh
movement yeah so it's important to know
what you do in your body now the most
easiest way
of preparation you need to be ready to
dance like for example if
i'm gonna teach you right now yes and we
have a private lesson you have
that private lesson with me and if i'm
gonna teach you like this
yeah i don't know yeah but i can't give
you very good information but
my body language tells all right like
i'm kind of like
not interested i'm kind of relaxed or
if i give you the same information but
my
posture is here i'm actually i really
want to
teach you i really wanna like you
succeed
i'm really interested in you the same
like when you when you
prepare and you walk on the floor or you
prepare yourself before the dance
when your partner look at you especially
for the girls
and the same for the boys if i look at
my partner and he stays
like that and plus he's trying to uh
search for the balance i'm not sure that
we can pass
a successfully this competition so it's
important to
prepare your body and show not only to
your partner
but to everyone around you that i'm
ready i'm prepared to win
now how to create this movement that's
our second center
the chest this part the center point of
our chest
that's our second second center this
center is for the movement
this center for presentation this center
is always has to be tone
so if you can see that my for example
neutral natural
position is when i prepare myself for
dance
i'm right away toning up
i lift my chest not um only up
but forward up at the same time
make sure that your lower back is quite
straight so
without arching it from the low back yes
that center is always stoned always
strong
yes there is some moment when you can
actually
use this energy and bring it in
but it's always a recovery movement in
your chest
to the normal to the natural this is the
natural action
and not action position for
bottom dancing now while your low center
is your
belly button hip area always have to be
in movement like wheels in the car so
it's
always moving constantly
your chest is stored in your
low center is constantly moving
and the slower you go
the more confident and more professional
you will look
what i mean in your low center in your
hips
if you um prepare your chest
up forward toned beautiful and you start
to do
some action uh
it looks like you panic and everybody
thinks like you're panicking
something happening something gonna
happen
or something gonna happen so the more
slow you go with this beautiful
presentation in your chest
the more slow you go with your hips
the more professional you will look so
you can
lower your center for example like in
samba
you can do it with the post knee so you
can do circular action
you can do number eight like a cuban
motion
but the slowest you go the stronger you
will look
so never really think like
oh samba music is so fast now i have to
do it
with the music no you can't take your
time especially for the girls
you will look very sexy and very
internal
the internal movement we got before our
routine when we prepare ourselves for
the dancing
we not starting dancing yet that's just
the preparation
that's how you present yourself and you
feel the music let's say it would be
very super fast music and samba
but if i'm gonna dance this movement
during the first music i will look good
i don't need to do so many like 100
different moves in once in one bar
or in one beat yes so always remember
your upper part your chest
that's a presentation point
and show that with this point you show
everyone
that i'm ready i'm ready to dance
here and of course you have to breathe
don't forget to breathe
it doesn't mean like you have to take
stone in hell
and that's it no no this part we tone it
up
but at the same time inside we're like
we're free
we're free now the low part the low
center is your hips
you can do the circular action like you
move your hips and circle
that that is great for someone you can
do
cuban motion like number eight this is
very good for room but also as well for
a cha-cha
for the jive we can use our
hip like pendulum action side to side
but again do not if you're not
experienced
with that do not try to like
search and chase for a speed
try to do it more internal
more reserved in the way and slow the
slower you go
the better it will look um
and that's kind of the energy you create
and um also
the movement we have different energies
if for example i want to arrive into
some
line or position let's say i want to
arrive to the position
you have to before you even start
to create this line you have to analyze
oh through what muscle or maybe i don't
need to
turn on my muscle in this certain
movement
or through which action i
have to develop this movement let's say
if i'm going to the sit position
i'm not just sit because i feel sexy no
i'm trying to stretch these two points
my hip my tailbone and my chest
in opposite direction on maximum through
the
maximum stretch never release
stretch your muscles so that's how you
develop
those type of lines or lunge stretch
so you have maximum stretch between your
leg and your
you stretch the line if for example you
have
already you're already in seated
position or you're in lunge
then you want to play with the energies
and you want to do some
movement always go for slow
so slow it doesn't mean that
we have to just do movement slower now
the slower movement goes
the more resistance through your muscles
you
create so if for example i want to do
something slow
i will try to engage all muscle in my
body
so i will feel that all even minor
muscles in my body
works on maximum that means
that what means slow it doesn't mean
like oh i just
have to go slower but when you look at
yourself
in the video it's look like
that's not what i was thinking i thought
i looked much much better
so you need to know how to use these
energies
or for example we talk about some
melting action let's say if i
stretch my arm up let's see and then i
want to
do some sensual soft movement
the sensual soft movement or melting
action
this energy not require you to
keep your muscles in tone so let's say
for example i want to do some
something sensual yes and very very soft
if we will keep my muscle i will look
like that dancer bodybuilder
so you have to just release and feel
that you're
melting this energy one by one so
starting with your wrist with your elbow
with your shoulder
to your center so you don't really
should turn on your muscular tension
is just release and feel the smell
then you can do something strong impact
movement
and impact movement usually most of the
times we create
through the chest sometimes
when for example it's not only chest but
it
can be just your legs so you put this
fast
energy to only one
point um only one part of your body
let's say it's i yes or hand
it's only one part of your body if you
will try to do impact
in every single part of your body
you will look very very um
too much i would say yes it's only
remember if you want to do something
impact you just have to play and
you need to know in advance and you have
to plan in advance and analyze in
advance
what you want to show what type of
energy
how through which muscle or
through which movement you created it's
not like oh
i'm sexy i'm essential
yeah for example i tell to myself these
images i might
i might succeed with them but
again it depends on your experience
and what is your level
if your level is professional enough and
you already
know how your body works and you
always that's kind of your
daily routine you know exactly how to
turn her off your body
yeah these images might work but if
you're not sure
you always um
don't buy those kind of like uh
words try to always think try to always
uh when uh put it through and
digest in your head first and then put
in your
kind of soul and start to believe in
those images
yeah so it's important and you can play
with that
based on those different
energies you can play with that and you
always can choose
every single day be different
um that would be a great and fun
exercise for you
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