Post Date: 2010-01-25 Like undertaking the task of learning any dance style, learning locking takes time, practice and perseverance.
There is also another vital ingredient if you wish to take it to a high standard. And that ingredient heeds itself in the form of an understanding of the dance.
When you are a beginner you will be eager to charge towards learning the moves, which is understandable and in fact to some extent the moves do play a role in locking's signature style.
However possibly even more critical is to grasp and to understand the dance itself. For there is something that underpins even all these moves and it makes itself known in the form of 'funk.'
Funk is a vital ingredient of locking. It cannot exist without it. This is not talking even about funk being pervasive in your surroundings but having that funk inside you, so that is a part of you and your dancing.
Funk does not need to be surrounding you if you have the funk in you. You do not even need music to dance to if there's music inside you.
A prime example of the funk being with you is watching 'The Lockers' dancing to Swan Lake if you can ever get your hands on the footage or DVD. Swan Lake would not be classed as funk music by any stretch of the imagination, yet The Lockers are still funky when they dance to its soundtrack and make the performance work.
There are elements to locking that make it work and make it different from other styles. And this leads to why you should learn locking as a style in its own right.
Often elements of locking will be incorporated into choreographies that may include other dance styles but if you wish to learn locking to a high standard you really need to take the time to learn it on its own.
Figure out its structure and grooves, its touches and subtle flavours that make it unique. Once you can see why these elements are in place you can develop a bigger picture and begin to understand with greater clarity what you can bring to the dance.
You need to know what the 'rules' are before you can break them. Having said that 'rules' would be a rather terse term and is really being used to say 'what the dance embodies that makes it unique and makes it function properly'.
You want your locking to look like locking. And that comes from understanding all of these various elements that are characteristic of locking.
Kevin Shwe (Strawberry KS) is a locking teacher that coaches students who want to learn locking through his classes, videos and DVDs. Find out more about his videos and lessons at http://www.lockingvideos.com/
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