qLife : Dance : Where do you get inspiration to dance?

mdale: April 09, 2008 - 05:56 PM PST i find that when I'm stressed i tend to dance the most as way of releasing anxiety, as weird as that sounds.but sometimes its the only way to distract myself from the crazy happenings around me :P

lena_nolegirl: April 06, 2008 - 06:50 PM PST

I totally agree! it's all in the emotion, whether it's the world that has created my emotion to find music to express it or the music itself that creates the emotion.

starrgazerr: April 05, 2008 - 02:16 PM PST

my inspiration that has kept me dancing for 20+ years is the music and the emotion that the music evokes in me. i can hear a soft, sad song and want to choreograph a lyrical dance, but then i can hear a hip hop song in the same beat and want to bust out my dance sneakers! <3

princess_star: April 03, 2008 - 05:35 AM PST im so bad in dancing hehe maybe when im not in the mood but the thing is im always not in the mood...

well i can do the helicopter... yeah its crazy im a girly girl and i can do that.... well i learned it in primary school when i was so young and i can still do it today... and like my classmates saw me do it in a party at a soccer field hehe maybe im just drunk

or im a better dancer when im drunk hehe yeah alcohol can make a person do silly things

AtimeArhyme: March 30, 2008 - 08:55 AM PST the two step

trenchael: March 29, 2008 - 01:07 PM PST The movie "Footloose" always makes me want to drive my yellow VW Beetle and go drink beer and dance in an abandoned warehouse.

Deanflagel: March 29, 2008 - 01:03 PM PST I went to an AMAZING dance gala last night and sat next to Susan Shields who teachers on campus and was Baryshnikov's partner in the White Oak dance troupe (also her 6 year old son - he and I had a great discussion about Star Wars legos during the intermission). The pieces were Patrick Corbin's "Reach", Twyla Tharp's "Eight Jelly Rolls" (which was my favorite - SUCH great music and you rarely will laugh so hard at a dance piece) and Mark Morris' masterpiece "Gloria" set to Vivaldi's "Gloria in D" (Mark works closely with our dance department and apparently when he came down to see the piece encouraged one of our seniors to come to audition, and selected him for his troupe out of 500 auditioners - which makes two of our graduates in his troupe!).

Tha point is - while watching me dance is, according to at least one very skilled dance instructor, "physcially painful", watching those young people defy gravity inspires me, not just to dance but to do everything better. The Dean of the college mentioned before the show that he (a former opera star) feels that no art form is as important as dance (a dangerous thing to say in his position) because nothing else so completely intertwines the mind and body. How's that for inspiration?

ginnie: March 28, 2008 - 05:36 PM PST I just do ballet like 20 hours a week (ya that's way to much) and I usually watch Mikhail Baryshnikov when I'm REALLY depressed and out of motivation. Everyone in my class is just so fake that it really helps to see him just knock it off.:

lilsey: March 20, 2008 - 11:37 PM PST

or an adios. mutha. f*******.

lch: March 20, 2008 - 01:41 PM PST Thats so cool to know that i'm not the only one.
yeah... music is big deal.

thanks.

say-10: March 20, 2008 - 03:25 AM PST usually grey goose and cranberry.

lena_nolegirl: March 20, 2008 - 03:05 AM PST I also dance better when I'm mad or upset. I get my inspiration from emotions and also from music.

Deanflagel: March 18, 2008 - 08:10 PM PST Inspiration in any art form depends on the artist - some more externally motivated, others more internally. Personally I am a truly awful dancer - as a child a well known ballet instructor noted that, depite my perfect memory of the moves and excellent rhythm, watching me dance was "physically painful" largely due to an utter lack of gracefulness on my part. Yet I find any music conects me to comething larger than myself, and I find it hard NOT to dance.

lch: March 18, 2008 - 09:08 AM PST People that dance, dance for different reasons than others.
My inspiration depends on my mood.
I actually dance better when I'm mad, because i am more focused than when I am happy and goofing off.
Some people do it to prove a point or for God or someone special or just to be the best.

I was just wondering.