How can I become a dancer without taking dance classes?

I hate having to repeat choreography after someone else! Its boring and not fun for me! I feel like a monkey following someone, doing the same moves they are doing! I want to be creative and create when I’m dancing! Do I really have to take hip hip classes to become a good dancer or is there another way?

If you doing this just for fun, then do what you want. But if you’re serious about learning hip hop, then you have to actually "study" it. And, yes, studying can be boring at times. It takes work. But copying someone else’s moves is the key part of training your brain and muscles to transfer what they SEE and HEAR into MOVEMENT. Without that kind of training, you would never be able to be professional (if you’re interested in doing that) because you could not follow the directions of a choreographer.

It takes practice of following someone over and over – for YEARS – to get to the advanced level where you can pick up moves with just one or two demonstrations. Also realize that if you can’t learn from a teacher, you’d never be able to teach, yourself, because you wouldn’t have experience in communicating about moves and how to give corrections when a move isn’t right. Learning a style of movement is a lot like learning a foreign language. There is a lot that your brain and muscles process when they perfectly reproduce someone else’s movements that is not the same as making up your own moves. When you make up your own moves, you only do what you CAN do instead of pushing yourself to match someone else’s moves. You also need to hear when your move isn’t right and practice fixing it or else you develop bad habits.

But if this is just for the dance floor, then go ahead and be creative.

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35 Responses to How can I become a dancer without taking dance classes?

  1. dat girlll brit says:

    i learned from Youtube videos, how to dance, do makeup. etc. its cool , answer mine?
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  2. qwerty says:

    I am a dancer, and i felt the same at first but ive been dancing for a few years now and at my stage we into choreo…and improve…keep with lessons and tell your teach abt ur problem she may help
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  3. S D says:

    did you mean hip hop?

    well anyway, maybe the type of dancing your doing isn’t right for you since you get so bored, do some research, you might find something you like :)

    but if you don’t want to take lessons, then don’t… dance in any way you please, just don’t do anything illegal ^_^
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  4. MCT says:

    Start with whatever you are most passionate about. Join a troup, start a troup, watch videos of dancers and see what you like. Try to do it yourself, keep practicing and find other talents to dance with whenever you can. There can be some really good classes that aren’t classically based you could start with. But in the end if you want to dance to make a living then classes are in your future. Just find the good ones.
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  5. drip says:

    Honestly, you can’t.
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  6. MartaWendy says:

    DO NOT learn from youtube. that;s the main thing, lots of people say that you should just learn from there but if you learn from there, you won;t ever end up bing good.
    You need to take classes at the beginning, but find a class where they teach you moves, and then make a choreography from the moves. if they teach you moves alone, tell you WHAT style you’re dancing and then put them into a choreography, you’ll be able to be more independent.
    But really, when you’re learning, you need to take classes. Sorry , but you do. or get a friend who is a dancer to teach you.
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  7. Janine says:

    If you doing this just for fun, then do what you want. But if you’re serious about learning hip hop, then you have to actually "study" it. And, yes, studying can be boring at times. It takes work. But copying someone else’s moves is the key part of training your brain and muscles to transfer what they SEE and HEAR into MOVEMENT. Without that kind of training, you would never be able to be professional (if you’re interested in doing that) because you could not follow the directions of a choreographer.

    It takes practice of following someone over and over – for YEARS – to get to the advanced level where you can pick up moves with just one or two demonstrations. Also realize that if you can’t learn from a teacher, you’d never be able to teach, yourself, because you wouldn’t have experience in communicating about moves and how to give corrections when a move isn’t right. Learning a style of movement is a lot like learning a foreign language. There is a lot that your brain and muscles process when they perfectly reproduce someone else’s movements that is not the same as making up your own moves. When you make up your own moves, you only do what you CAN do instead of pushing yourself to match someone else’s moves. You also need to hear when your move isn’t right and practice fixing it or else you develop bad habits.

    But if this is just for the dance floor, then go ahead and be creative.
    References :
    My daughter is a professional dancer who has danced hip hop professionally.

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