By Bernhard De LucaUpdated
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Learning to dance Hip Hop at home is the most relaxed way to develop a real sense of your body without an audience. With the right basics, you can turn your living room into your personal dance floor.
Moving by yourself in your living room requires a bit of courage at first, but it offers you the perfect, protected space for your first attempts. Streetdance is not about looking perfect from the first second, but about developing a feel for the rhythm. Many beginners make the mistake of starting directly with complex choreographies from music videos and giving up in frustration. The key to success lies in isolating the movement patterns and getting to know your own body in a completely new way. If you have answered the question which dance style suits me with Hip Hop, it is best to start with the music.
Every Hip Hop track is based on a constant beat that you have to internalize physically. Before you move your feet, you should learn to feel the beat with your upper body. This rhythmic swaying is the absolute foundation for every streetdance move at home. Let the music play and try to emphasize the heavy beats, usually on counts one and three, by slightly bending your knees and relaxing your upper body. Only when this swaying happens automatically do the actual steps come into play.
Stand with your feet hip-width apart, bend your knees slightly, and start to bounce gently to the beat of the music. The momentum comes from your knees and hips, while your upper body remains relaxed.
Move your head, shoulders, and pelvis individually to the beat without moving the rest of your body. This trains your coordination and releases tension in your torso.
Take a step to the side, bring the other foot along and tap it briefly before you change direction. Combine this sidestep directly with the bounce you have learned.
Place one foot diagonally forward on the heel, pull it back, and repeat this with the other side. Make sure that your weight remains on the back standing leg.
Connect the steps you have learned into a small, fluid loop and try to let your arms swing naturally to the rhythm, without overthinking it.
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For starting at home, tracks with a slow, very clear beat between 80 and 95 BPM are ideal. Old-school Hip-Hop or modern boom-bap often have particularly distinct snare and bass hits, which make it extremely easy for you to hear the beat.
A mirror is extremely helpful for solo training at home, but it is not an absolute must. If you do not have a large mirror, you can occasionally film yourself with your smartphone to check and correct your posture and bounce afterwards.
With just ten to fifteen minutes of daily training, you will achieve noticeable progress in your sense of rhythm after two to three weeks. Your muscle memory stores new movement patterns faster through constant repetition than through rare, long sessions.
Once you have mastered the basics, a course with like-minded people will help you progress even faster.
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