Spontaneous movement, like play, channels our energy, our feelings, and our desire to express ourselves.
As a professional dancer, she had to travel the world for long periods since her childhood, competing on television and performing on various stages. Pressure, stress and perfectionism were not alien to the American Julianne Hough, now 31 years old, and so in 2018 he decided to turn his own ability to dancing in a form of emotional catharsis and share your method with the world.
KINRGY is today a app of well-being available for those who want to practice it in any country, but deep down is inspired by a universal premise: spontaneous, playful and authentic physical movement as a means to channel your own energy and feelings.
“We expressed a lot more when we were kids. I’m trying to help people reconnect with that inner child“Hough commented in an interview for the magazine Women’s Health. “Whatever I’m going through, stress, anguish, frustration, or just when I want to have more fun, I always return to my body because that is where I can free myself. This method reminds us that we must let go of perfection. and return to the most natural form of our body: expression. That’s where we can be the best of ourselves”.
Although the app favors the feeling of community, there is no precise choreography to be followed, you don’t even need a dance partner: work is a personal expression and everyone is the owner of their movements, under the guidance of the instructors.
Dance alone? Yes! Since the pandemic (and perhaps a little before the COVID-19 outbreak), the trend in terraces and bars pointed to the absence of a formal dance floor allowing whoever wanted to get up and dance to do so (in its square meter) without feeling committed to having a partner or gathering the courage to go out and move in front of everyone.
“Give happiness to your body”
In a time of digital effervescence, social networks are today a platform to express that personal identity. Although some choose photographs, the social network TikTok built its resounding success in short dance videos with individual choreographies, with such impact that Instagram copied that same format for its Reels.
Following that trend of the challenges of TikTok, the American magazine Vogue decided to put the rhythm of the closing of 2021 and bring back one of the most famous dances of the nineties: The Macarena, a song originally performed by Los del Río, but this time taken up by Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny.
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A dozen models with costumes clearly reminiscent of the style that dominated during the turn of the millennium accompany the Latin Grammy winner, while he also tries to move in that audiovisual party in which everyone simply enjoys at their own pace. The audio was also made immediately available on TikTok so that its users could have a fun time recreating the famous steps. A good dance does not have an expiration date.
A natural behavior
We are never still. Moving is natural, it is the way to let go of everything that we carry inside, be it tensions or positive emotions. What better way than to channel it through dance. Dance alone? Everyone should do it.
“We have been dancers since we were little; we do not need to learn dance, it is part of everything “, thinks Alexis Jestin, French choreographer who promotes welcoming dance in everyday life. Since we are always moving, dancing is simply being aware of what is between one movement and another.
In Ecuador, Jestin still observe a culture of folkloric and tropical dance, which is not limited to a stage. “Everyone is a dancer, we just have to leave out the judgment that we have within us, to allow ourselves much more freedom and open ourselves.”
“Dance is body”, is the first thing that makes you notice Marcela Correa Prossel, who has been dancing, teaching and thinking about this discipline for more than 40 years. She makes this precision because consider that nowadays we are distancing ourselves more and more from our own body and that of the other. “Social networks and emojis”, he emphasizes, “are replacing corporeality.”
In reality, the body is the basis of the interaction. “Any activity, without it, does not exist.” So dancing, in the words of Marcela Correa, is to reconnect, from the body, with the corporality of the other. “It is a way of expressing who you are.”
On the other hand, dancing frees you from states of stress and tension, something that dialogue cannot always achieve. There is a greater openness towards the other. That’s why parties have dancing, and this comes before the conversation; it is an enabler of letting go and opening, a transition to the other.
“Even to flirt, he takes out dancing first,” says Correa, who coordinates the Performing Arts area at the San Francisco University of Quito and directs the Tal Vez university dance company. “Without communicating verbally, we are giving a lot of information, physical, expressive, corporal and tactile, Well, one has permission to touch the other within that format ”.
And precisely because this is an exchange of information without words, the teacher advises not to wear ‘anything’. “Before the body, the first thing we read is the other’s face and clothes. I always tell my students: When dancing, do not wear anything, because that anything says, talks about us ”. The wardrobe matters. And it is not about ‘throwing the closet on top’. In the language of the wardrobe, the one that is richly decorated is worth no more than the simple one. “What matters is what I want to convey.”
What if what I’m conveying is discomfort or embarrassment about my dance skills (or lack thereof)? This has many causes, the first is the personality of the dancer, and another is the cultural factor. Dancing anywhere, at any time, intergenerationally, has been natural. But that, says Marcela Correa, It has been lost with the designation of spaces to dance. “If we are not in them (disco, hall, stage), we do not dance.”
The latter is an example of how social constructions inhibit us more and more, “but the possibility of liberation brings enough happiness for the human being”. Art in the body – dance – allows living a simpler and more pleasant life, just as intuitive and spontaneous play does.
Towards another dimension
Dana Romero Escalante, 20 years old, who practice dance from 3, and that he decided to make it his profession, in dancing she finds that way to reconnect with herself.
“It is your body and the music, two elements that have been with us all the time. I always give the example of a scene from the movie The pianist, where he’s playing and out of nowhere he goes to another dimension, well, that really happens. It is a sensory experience where you get to place yourself in another dimension where you are listening to your body, drawing with your body in the air, also expressing because you use the resource of how you feel to move in a certain wayThere are many things that make this discipline take you to that place ”.
It also allows you to stay honest about your own emotions. “Dance makes us very empathetic because we are always striving to sensitize ourselves so that all our performance be genuine. For me, it is a process that has been rewarding because it makes me happy, dancing and moving always generates happiness, and, on the other hand, has helped me cope with things that have come up while dancing, because while we dance we also think or we remember things to develop them in the movement and it’s a pretty interesting internal conversation. “
Dance alone or with someone? The dancer, who was part of the show All is allowed of the Sánchez Aguilar Theater, admits that when dancing alone one is much more sincere (speaking from improvisation and not at a choreographic level).
“By dancing alone you will never feel judged on whether something is wrong or not because you are alone, but when we are with other people, we do feel that pressure because there are some prejudices, like everything else, because life in general has certain regulations. So when we are observed, our potential is diminished“, He says. “But instead, When you dance with others, you find in those people the energy to share, this exchange is real, because it also inspires you to see others dance, it’s pretty cool. ” (I)
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