A Journey of Focus, Excellence, and Mastery.
A little more than a week ago, I completed one of the most ambitious goals I’ve ever set for myself—the production of an online dance course. This course is a culmination of the saturated learning experiences during my short time as a teacher. Releasing the Get Groovy course got me thinking about the journey that [...]
After a few years of teaching Hiphop dance, I've come to realize how complex the form is. I constantly push myself to find creative ways to break down the fundamentals of Hiphop dance, and I can tell you that transferring the basics to the average student is a difficult thing to do. I've found that there are [...]
"Ain't a way around it no more, I am the greatest A lotta niggas sat on the throne, I am the latest I am the bravest, go toe to toe with the giants I ain't afraid of you niggas, I'll end up fading you niggas... We all kings Kings of ourselves first and foremost While [...]
Over the past few days I have been listening to a podcast series called "The Overwhelmed Brain" by Paul Colaianni. The episodes consist of interviews that discuss ways in which people develop their minds in order to achieve their definition of success. I found the podcast in a general attempt to find multiple sources that [...]
Over the holidays I've been processing about my MFA project that I have to create in order to, for a lack of better words, establish my legitimacy as a graduate student in dance at The Ohio State University and show how artfully intellectual I am which I'm clearly doing by writing this long-behind sentence... I've [...]
As I have worked on my composition skills in the graduate level, I have had moments where I realize I am uncomfortable as I move- but I'm never uncomfortable when I'm moving…unless…unless I feel a sense of vulnerability. That feeling creeps and consumes my soul in few instances: when I am ill-prepared to present, performing [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrEL0tIo7fY Hey y'all! So this is my last video of the semester, I feel like it has been an amazing journey at OSU so far and I wanted to cap it off by going back to what I love to naturally do choreographically- create videos that highlight the dance using my own movement voice. This [...]
This picture is a mock-promotion of a class that my future-company would host for its community. Although I am far away from anything of the sort, I do believe in speaking into the future as though it is true.
Movement Lifestyle Tour Contest Movement Lifestyle (ML) is pretty much a monopoly within the Hiphop agency business over in Los Angeles. They have contracts with a lot of the top mainstream Hiphop choreographers and dancers that exist on the west coast. However, it is much more than an agency. It literally is a movement. The [...]
