What up all.
I don't know where to nail a graceful introduction. so i'll start with how I've avoided this forum for the past year. a pandora box unready to open for myself, just witnessed from afar. but recently, i started lurking around in first person interest, began direct with this section, The Journey, which is really great and inspiring and much good stuff. it got me to step up now. and me is who.
well i'm e. for now. dirt garden grown in the shadow of new york city, down with rave culture since a wee one in 95 when The Experience dropped on my head. a few years late on that release but it tuned me in. i fell in luv. i did my homework. i wanted to be a part of this movement. wasn't old enough for awhile. finally got out in 2000, still young, still a struggle to escape grown-up rule. by the time i was more free and nearing big age 18, parties were burning out round here, 02/03. i started going to baltimore in 02, moved to dc in 05, then bmore a year later, up til a few months ago. so maryland is where i started dancing.
and dancing. in all those years of party fawning, party going, dancer sights, and friends who danced, i didn't start dancing til january 07.
i was excruciatingly shy for a long time. and afraid to meet my biggest most ruthless hater, me the critic, be it in my eyes or in others.
when i got to dc in 05, i started seeking out dancing directly, not in conjunction with parties, but scoping from the hiphop angle. i went to an all-styles dance competition at nation. by that time i was comfortable enough to at least groove with my roommates and act a fool, so i was at this event with quiet eye like someday, ima do that too. in late 06 i moved to baltimore, and that winter i got word of a "breakdance club" at my school. i went, and that's where things started for me in dancing.
the dance community in maryland became a mainline in my life from there, all the inspiration and motivation and growth with it, friends and fellow dancers met. i started popping because it felt most natural, and i had some pretty dope poppers as my peers and teachers so it was the right place to be.
but i was still a dreadful freeze-up. and i always felt like a weirdo overall, unconventional and else-minded, unable to learn straight without weirding shit up.
that summer, 07, my dancing path diverged, back to raves. my previous presence became thin as i ran away to this place where i finally found (and continue to find) myself as a dancer. long ghey story short. 2 years of explorations, experiments, and experiences, with the freedom and imagination that the music and environment granted. leaves me where i am now.
so i been thinking bout liquid nowadays, and i'm down. finally. mc peanut's story put this into perspective for me, how finding liquid made sense of already-developed dancing, and already understanding certain elements of it through personal experience alone. i've never actively pursued liquid for myself really. i started dabbling this year to the company and tutelage of a couple encouraging liquid friends, albeit loosely. still never read up or watched a tutorial, any commitment past those zones at parties and personal contacts.
i've come to a point in my dancing where i've been searching for calm and continuity.
i took three videos yesterday, marking what in my dancing that i want to give to liquid. i started taking videos last november but for no reason other than natureshow-like personal documentation.
so i guess these are my first dance videos. i'm a total newb. press play and record and prance around til the song is over. i picked tracks i never danced to, and oldskool epic cheese trance to start with, because that's where i first started feeling liquid.
http://www.youtube.com/v/CZ1Q7UTE5KU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6i'd chop the first 1:40 off this one if i wasn't sed newb. nothing much coherent happens til after myspace messenger fail.
http://www.youtube.com/v/74Zw7H7KmfU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6then this track to prove to you im not that ghey
http://www.youtube.com/v/ynwolWMb1w0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6two skins later it went to this.
i moved back with the fam for a bit, norf dirt j, in september, and up here i'm away from the dance community that became home. i'm posting up here on floasis to connect with other dancers, to focus on a style and check off some boxes to technical skill and vocab, which i blatantly lack, and continue my path in dancing from here. at this point, liquid makes the most sense. from what i've glanced upon, there's philosophies in liquid that coincide with my own, so i think an alliance would be pretty cool.
there's plenty of fill-in-the-blanks in these videos that i think certain aspects of liquid and digits could hone into detail. my hands want maps so they never get lost. i obviously need/want a continuous flow to seam up my stutters, cuz as it is i'm just made out of dimestops and postures.
after i made these videos, i watched a couple tutorials on the site. rail? so that's what you call that!
so yep. i have a big fun world ahead of me. yaaaay let's go! i'm finally game.
