Stop Dancing Awkward! (5 Bad Habits To Fix)

Awkwardness in dance is ABSOLUTELY treatable! In this video, STEEZY instructor Miss Lauren helps you break some bad dance habits to improve your dancing today! STOP DANCING AWKWARD and start dancing CONFIDENTLY! 🕺

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00:00 Introduction
00:23 Bad Habit #1 - Staying In Your Box
01:37 Bad Habit #2 - Stiff Neck
02:06 Neck Loosening Exercises
03:07 Using Your Neck When Dancing
04:18 Bad Habit #3 - Wandering Eyes
04:42 Post It Notes (Focusing Exercise)
05:39 Bad Habit #4 - Falling Off Balance
07:01 Bad Habit #5 - Not Tracking Progress

[steezystudio]

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[Svenja_Schaefer]

My experience is: if you ashamed of dancing, it will be look awkward. Dancing while trying to hide your moves is the worst thing you can do. Dance with big moves and control your mind.

[Svenja_Schaefer]

Everyone, who reads this and dances regularly:
Dance for me, too. I loved dancing, but my health condition doesn't allow it anymore. I miss dancing so much!

[firewolf]

Tip for my unconfident dancers: look in the mirror, practicing at home with no one looking, to get comfortable with seeing and feeling your body move more confidently and experimenting with the moves more as there is no fear of failure or doing something wrong. Even a small mirror will do, literally stare at your face, build your self esteem. Place a phone camera on selfie mode and use it as a mirror. Good luck!

[starei]

I’m a self-taught dancer, though i never intended to dance, i just catch on to things and watching dance performances/stages a lot makes me just subconsciously know how to do the dance. These last few months i’ve been taking it seriously and this video explains things so clearly and i absolutely love it. thank uuu ☺️

p.s something for the other self-taught dancers: remember learn the mirrored dance of a song!

[katecosettevocals]

I had tried learning to dance for over ten years in dance classes, and I finally found a teacher who gave me a 1-on-1 lesson and immediately said "engage your core" and MY LIFE CHANGED. I FINALLY knew why my dancing always looked so awkward and why I couldn't move fast, and I always overcompensated for it by trying to make moves bigger or sharper when all I needed to do was engage my core. But even since learning that, I haven't seen that dance advice ANYWHERE else! So thank you Steezy for mentioning it!! I really suggest mentioning it so much more often, though! Because to me, it felt like a dancer secret that every other dancer knew except me, so I know there are dancers out there who still don't know to engage their core and this tip should be blessed upon them all! I wish that every class would offhand mention to engage your core just as both a reminder and to hopefully bestow this lifechanging tip on dancers who had never known to do so (like me).

Thank you for all these new tips as well! I had stopped falling off balance a few years ago, ironically when I subbed to this channel. Now I know why! 😆❤

[YoongSeung]

I definitely remember my awkward dancing days. And here is my take on it. Get out of your comfort zone and try to be picky with yourself. Look at any move you may be executing and note “what can I do to make this better?”. I also spent some time looking at other ppl dancing online. To see what parts of the body needed improvement. Also note, your body will not move 100% like others. Some moves may look different on your body type. Find a way that it’ll suit your own body. And finally, don’t be afraid of failure or looking weird. The more you are afraid, the more you’ll think your a bad dancer and you won’t improve. You will! Results come slowly but surely! I think back to 3 - 4 years ago now and I was pretty bad, but I danced anyways. And now, I’m quite confident with my dancing and am still looking to improve whatever I can.

[eevaanh]

one thing that i’ve noticed from having multiple self taught but also more professional dance friends are HANDS. the hands are one of the major differences i spot between newbies and trained dancers pay attention to the extremities of your body what are your hands doing even when they’re not performing a specific move?

[anki]

Wow she talks so well.. I loved the entire way she made things clear 😍😍

[briannafine]

i've been a dancer for a decade so i definitely recommend this for beginners. never be afraid to come out of the box and feel more confident, that will definitely help you improve !!

[billliecola]

ALSO! Practice makes Permanent! ^_^

The more you do the RIGHT practice, the more your body remembers what the RIGHT thing to do!

[wamothy]

Ok but the filming and editing of y’all’s videos always has me cracking up! That neck meme sent me, was not expecting that lmao 😂

[mayleespann]

I’m terrible at following directions to learn choreographed dances, but I really feel it when I’m moving with the music on my own instincts. I probably won’t ever be a dancing performer (nor do I particularly want to) but I do have a grand old time in my room. These tips are helpful to make sure I can really get into the groove

[sarakaiser]

So glad to have Miss Lauren at Steezy Studio! And I absolutely love seeing our community in these videos, makes it even more special to be a part of it and being able to celebrate our group as a whole ❤My worst habit in dance is not stretching enough, because I'm impatient and bored by repetition 🙈 Logically I know how important it is, so far it just doesn't translate into actually doing it

[cheskakim]

This video will help me for my dancing, but my problem is I don't have confident to dance in front of a lot of people and when I dance in front of them I can't remember the steps of a dance 😪🤣, but I'll try this, Thank you😊

[Priu_Adhav]

I am not even a dancer, I'm here just because, curiosity.
And also the way she explained everything, it kept me interested.

[hamidaabdul]

This made me realize that I have trouble dancing on my weaker side. Like I’m right handed and feel more fluid on my right side but, have trouble dancing on my left side. Do you guys have a video/tips/tutorials for this? And this video was super helpful, thanks steezy for your hard work!

[stellaalemanno]

I keep moving my arms like a dinosaur while dancing please help💀

[savagexberry]

Dancing is my life...if i have fever, knee pain, depressed ir anything dance saves me! I do it everyday

[heyyy]

I dont even dance, i sing but this was genuinely so so helpful. This helped me sing both on a physical and mental level. Sometimes its just about mindset and ur perception when singing. Theres a lot in common with dancing and singing i think, its just dancing is a more physical representation of energy in a way?