Dancing With Confidence
You must look confident when you dance, but that doesn’t mean you really are!! Even if you’re quaking in your dancing shoes, LOOK confident and your audience will be impressed.
Let’s face it, the audience never saw you rehearse. They don’t know what the routine was supposed to be, so they won’t spot a mistake unless you make it obvious by frowning – or stopping!
If you can maintain a look of confidence, head up, torso erect, smiling brightly no matter what craziness is happening lower down, the audience will probably never notice you goofed.
Most dancers suffer nerves before a performance, but it doesn’t matter. Learn to look confident every time you dance – even in practice – and it will become natural. A word of warning – if you dance with poise and confidence in class, some students will call you a show-off. Those students would prefer you to pull faces, giggle when you make a mistake and sketch your final pose instead of ‘hitting’ it.
I know it’s tough to withstand those jibes, but ask yourself what’s more important – fitting in, or your dance career. Serious dancers will always try to perform in class exactly as they would on stage.
My dance teacher was adamant that every time we did a step in class, we must pretend that we were on stage. That has stood me in good stead throughout my dance career – and has even got me into trouble! More than once, when I started performing flamenco, audience members told me I was a better dancer than my teacher. I knew that wasn’t true – my teacher was a far better dancer. But the difference was, I had learned to dance confidently no matter what, whereas she was shy and danced with her eyes downcast. So when we danced together (as we sometimes did), it was me who grabbed the audience’s attention. They never noticed that my feet were not as precise- all they could see were my ‘attack’ and enthusiasm.
Naturally, you must also rehearse,so you know the steps thoroughly. But that’s not the biggest contribution to your ‘confidence score’!
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