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BREAKTHE BEATA guide on learning the most basic break dancing moves and how to avoid injury by doing stretches that can help save you some pain!
NEWESTMIXES
LOOKING FOR A BEAT? Hottest websites �lled with music downloads for you and your crew.
errkW !
JANUARY 2012
01ISSUE
USA $13.95CAN $14.95
www.dance.co.uk
FIT THESCENE!
FIND OUT WHAT’S HOT INTHE HIP-HOP SCENE!From sneakers to pants, �nd out what’s hot and comfortable fordancers like you!
DANCETRENDS
SEE WHAT EVERYBODY’SBUZZING ABOUT!Information on the newest dancetrends that’s happening in America.
EMPTYSPACE
ALWAYS DREAMED ABOUTGETTING YOUR OWN STUDIO SPACE?No need to look any further..information on affordable places can be found here!
TABLE OFCONTENTS
STRETCHING ESSENTIALSDIET TO BREAKHEA
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TREN
DSZUMBAFASHION
HOTTEST SONGS
LOCAL
VACANT SPOTSDANCE EVENTS
MEET&GREETS
FEATURE ARTICLE
BREAK THE BEATA guide on learning the most basic break dancing moves and how to avoid injury by doing stretches that can help save you some pain!
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JOIN THEMOVEMENT
First off, I’m not a professional at starting dance companies, but I do
have some experience. As being a dance contractor for different dance
companies and schools here in Chattanooga I have learned how to
market and promote growth for my business. As well as, my friend
and I have recently started a dance crew here in Chattanooga and is
progressing very well. So let’s get started!
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You & Your Passion. Like all good businesses it starts off with a simple passion/ desire for doing something you love. So, yes, it starts off with just you. If you don’t have teaching, leading, or choreograph-ing skills than it’s best to start off somewhere (in a small local studio) where you can get experience. Like most artists, spend-ing lots of time in the studio is crucial: preparing lesson plans, choreographing dances, and perfecting your technique. Then, start sharing with the community who you are as a local artist: videoing dances, attend dance clinics, teach private lessons, perform at festivals, perform at churches, perform any where you can. Exposing yourself to the community will get more people excited about what you do, and will possibly want to join you in your developing company.
Getting Exposed. My friend Ariel said, "Once you start performing people will see you and want to join you." Ariel and his wife started Relentless, a well known performance art ministry in Knoxville. He said they started off as a small crew, and when they started performing others joined. Once others are slowly joining your company it is good to have a routinely practice at least once a week when you all can get together and work on up coming performances. First, find a studio that will allow you to practice there, if not churches provide good space. Than, you and your small company should start performing at every free event you can find such as: art shows, venues, parks, talent shows, competitions, etc.
First Performance. After performing at every free event you’ll have people intrigued to watch you dance (fans). Then for sure you have people willing to pay money to see the company. Start planning the first official upcoming performance. (Don’t go over the board with details, stay simple) Like most businesses, they start off small and grow from there. Most likely, hold the performance at where the company practices at, if there’s room for an audience. If there’s not enough room perform in a church (always free). Stay simple, go with what you have. Start off with an introduction about the company and perform the dances you all have been working on. Having different people over directing, sound, lights, music, costumes, and other creativity will be a lot smoother than having one person do it all. Remember you are trying to build fans… so, keep the tickets relatively cheap! Or, don’t charge for tickets and accept donations only.
Including Your Fans. Getting your fans involved is very important. Social Media helps the most here. Start a You Tube account and Face Book account to include the community on all your videos and upcoming performances. It might seem like a lot at once, but just start with one account at a time. Later, build your website and create busi-ness cards. Charity events really include the community as well, such as dance work shops for: inner city kids, orphanages, hospital patients, etc. Also, do fund raisers for local charities.
Staying Successful. Lastly, goals and dreams are reachable, however, not if they are money oriented. Depend-ing on how large the company grows, you might not make a career of it. If lucky enough, you might make enough steady income for you and the instructors. Most well known dance companies pay their dancers, and if you do make that much than I insist you do pay them. Because if you think about it your dancers have a very occupied life as well with school and work. Paying your dancers offer you more reliable dancers! They will take the company more seriously and tend to be apart of the company much longer than non-paid dancers.
“..it starts off with a simple passion/desire for doing something you love..”
TRUTH.
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TermsUprock is an aggressive dance that involves two dancers who mimic ways of fighting each other using mimed weaponry in rhythm with the music.
Toprock generally refers to any string of steps performed from a standing position. It is usually the first and foremost opening display of style, though danc-ers often transition from other aspects of breaking to toprock and back.
Downrock (also known as “foot-work” or “floorwork”) is used to describe any movement on the floor with the hands supporting the dancer as much as the feet. Downrock includes moves such as the foundational 6-step, and its variants such as the 3-step.
Power moves are acrobatic moves that require momentum, speed, endurance, strength, and control to execute.
Freezes are stylish poses. They are used to emphasize strong beats in the music and often signal the end of a b-boy set.
Suicides, like freezes, are used to emphasize a strong beat in the music and signal the end to a routine.
History of Breakdancing
The history of breakdance takes us back to the 1970’s.
Breakdance is a dynamic dance style that is a major component of the hip-hop culture. Breakdancing de-
veloped in the South Bronx of New York City during the
late 20th century, coincid-ing with the disco era.
How toBreakdance
A l w a y s w a n t e d t o k n o w h o w p e o p l e
d e f i n e g r a v i t y t h r o u g h d a n c i n g ?
Learn how here with these 7 step basica knowledge
in breakdancing.
Know the basic terminology. One of the first things any bboy should learn is the difference between “breakdancing” and “bboying”. Bboying is the first term made to describe the dance; it’s usually the term used when in the community. The term the general media uses to describe the dance is breakdancing, which was conjured up by a reporter back when the dance was gaining recognition.
Learn the basic moves.These are critical to becoming a good breaker and should not be glossed over carelessly. Working hard at the basics will allow you to become a better beraker than if you went straight for the harder and more impressive moves.
Learn how to toprock.This is where you can really let loose and enjoy yourself and Groove to the music. It’s this part of the dance that you can play with the music a lot.
Learn the downrocks.This is what most people know bboying as. When you are down on the floor (usually on hands and feet) doing a lot of complex looking steps. This is probably the most creative part of the dance.
As a starter, you should learn 6-step, 3-step (learn them BOTH ways)and helicopter. Then when you have perfected them, start to move onto more technical stuff.
Learn the drops & go-downs.This is what most people know bboying as. When you are down on the floor (usually on hands and feet) doing a lot of complex looking steps. This is probably the most creative part of the dance.
As a starter, you should learn 6-step, 3-step (learn them BOTH ways)and helicopter. Then when you have perfected them, start to move onto more technical stuff.
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Learn the freezes.This is the traditional way to finish your throwdown (a throw-down is what we call it when you visit the floor to take your turn) The basic freezes to learn are: Baby freeze, turtle, shoulder, side chair.
These are the most fundamental freezes and it is very important that you learn them early on as a lot of other moves build on them.
Learn basic flares.The flare is an acrobatic move in which the performer alternates balancing the torso between either arm while swinging the legs beneath in continuous circles.
The left leg begins about 10 inches behind the right (not lined up). If the breaker already has momentum, he/she quickly puts down his left hand close to the left leg facing the fingers away from the body, towards the left. Next, the left leg is swung around as hard as possible while doing a jump. The breaker is prepared to put down the right hand. All of the breaker’s weight shifts to the right arm, and he/she kicks the left leg up as high as possible.
The right leg swings under the left and then the left hand comes down in front, such that both hands are now in front. Arching his/her back and without touching the ground, the breaker kicks the right leg up again and swings the left leg around low for another rotation.
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AVOIDINJURYStretching is the most important thing you can do to avoid injuries. Although, dance may not be considered a typical fitness exercise, it works the body hard. In order to prevent injury as well as stiff tired muscles, stretching is essential. Learn some simple stretches that wil l stretch each muscle needed for breakdancing.
CHIN, NECK & HEAD
TORSO
LOW VERY HIGH
Stretch the neck and shoulders before your dance festivities. Place your arms loosely at your sides and spread your legs shoulder length apart. Relax, allowing your chin to rest on your chest and breathe long and deep, feeling the inhale extend the stretch. Remember that in order to be effective your stretch should be held for a minimum of 10 seconds, or 2 to 3 long, full deep breaths. Picking up the chin slowly and roll your head back, keeping your mouth closed to accentuate the stretching of the front neck muscles and chest. Pick up the head again and roll the head to your left shoulder, keeping your arms and upper back relaxed.
necessity: avoids: kinks in the neck, pinched nerves, inflammation
LEVEL OF NECESSITY
Cross your right arm parallel across your body and grasp just above your elbow with your left hand. Press slightly out with your right arm to accentuate the stretch in your shoulder blade. Repeat on the other side. Bend your right arm at the elbow and place your palm flat against your back between your shoulder blades. Use your right hand to push down slightly on your elbow for a deeper stretch. Hold and repeat on the opposite side.
necessity: avoids: pinched nerves, arm dislocations, arm sprains, hand/arm problems, torn ligaments
Stretch your torso, an important area as hip hop dance uses the ab-dominals and hips a lot. Rest your hands gently on your hips and lean forward, feeling the stretch in your lower back. Roll your body to the right side and hold. Roll to the back and hold, and finally, roll to the left and hold before coming front again. Change direction and repeat once more on each side, picking up the pace a bit.
necessity: avoids: back problems, back pain, abdominal strain
Spread your legs about 3½ feet apart to begin stretching the legs. Bend the right knee and lunge, making sure that your knee never extends past your ankle. Hold and repeat on the opposite side. Bring your legs together and bend your right knee so that your heel is pressed into your buttocks. Hold your ankle with your right hand, hold, release and repeat on the left side.
Zumba dancing is best described as a fun, joyful Latin inspired fitness class that combines all the rhythms in Latin music.
Zumba applies dance moves from Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Rumba, Mambo, Belly Dance, Flamenco, Samba, Tango, Reggatone and of course Hip Hop. I guarantee you — you will have tons of fun shed-ding off the pounds. It won’t even feel like work!
THERE’S A
NEWERAIN THEWORLD
OF FITNESSAND A NEW FACE TO GO WITH IT.
THE NEW FACE OF FITNESS IS A FACE THAT SHOUTS, “I WANT TO!” THE NEW FACE OF FITNESS IS THE FACE OF JOY, ADVEN-TURE AND PASSION. TODAY, MORE THAN 12 MILLION PEOPLE ALL SIZES, SHAPES AND AGES TAKE WEEKLY ZUMBA CLASSES IN OVER 110,000 LOCATIONS ACROSS MORE THAN 125 COUN-TRIES. AND THE PROGRAM’S POPULARITY KEEPS GROWING BY LEAPS, BOUNDS (and exhilarating dance steps). PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH ZUMBA FITNESS-PARTY. MEMBERS LOVE IT. AND YOU WILL TOO!
THE ZUMBA PROGRAM IS AN EFFECTIVE, EXHILARTING, LATIN-INSPIRED, EASY-TO-FOLLOW, CALORIE-BURNING DANCE FITNESS-PARTY THAT HAS TAKEN THE FITNESS INDUSTRY BY STORM. IT ACHIEVES THE PERFECT BALANCE OF A PROGRES-SIVE CORE WORKOUT, FULL-BODY CARDIO AND STRENGTH TRAINING, AND A STRESS-RELIEVING, ENERGY-PRODUCING FITNESS EXPERIENCE.
Meet the Man Behind Zumba: Beto Perez. He built a global empire helping people have fun and
burn calories. It took four trips from his native Colombia to Miami before Beto Perez got his big break. The fitness and dance instructor simply wanted to bring his workout classes to America. But with little money and even less English, he couldn’t get fitness-center managers to watch his Latin-dance-inspired videos. Ten years later, five million people take classes every week from 30,000 certified instructors (who pay $250 for training and a license) in 75 countries, from Canada to China. More than four million DVDs have been sold, and Zumbawear has taken off (the $64.95 cargo pants are the top seller).
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
towel water shoes
ZUMBA CLASSES
[ ZUMBA FITNESS ] When participants see a Zumba class in action, they can’t wait to give it a try. Zumba classes feature exotic rhythms set to high-energy Latin and international beats. Before participants know it, they’re getting fit and their energy levels are soaring! There’s no other fitness class like a Zumba Fitness-Party. It’s easy to do, effective and totally exhilarating, often building a deep-rooted community among returning students.
[ ZUMBA GOLD ] Gold targets the largest growing segment of the population: baby boomers. It takes the Zumba formula and modifies the moves and pacing to suit the needs of the active older participant, as well as those just starting their journey to a fit and healthy lifestyle. What stays the same are all the elements the Zumba Fitness-Party is known for: the zesty Latin music, like salsa, merengue, cumbia and reggaeton; the exhilarating, easy-to-follow moves; and the invigorating, party-like atmosphere. Active older adults want camaraderie, excitement and fitness as a regular part of their weekly schedule. Zumba Gold is the perfect fit. It’s a dance-fitness class that feels friendly, and most of all, fun.
[ ZUMBA TONING ] When it comes to body sculpting, Zumba Toning raises the bar (or rather, the toning stick). It combines targeted body-sculpting exercises and high-energy cardio work with Latin-infused Zumba moves to create a calorie-torching, strength-training dance fitness-party. Students learn how to use lightweight, maraca-like Toning Sticks to enhance rhythm and tone all their target zones, including arms, abs, glutes and thighs. Zumba Toning is the perfect way for enthusiasts to sculpt their bodies naturally while having a total blast.
[ AQUA ZUMBA ] Known as the Zumba “pool party,” Aqua Zumba gives new meaning to the idea of an invigorating workout. Splashing, stretching, twisting, even shouting, laughing, hooting and holler-ing are often heard during an Aqua Zumba class. Integrating the Zumba formula and philosophy with traditional aqua fitness disciplines, Aqua Zumba blends it all together into a safe, challenging, water-based workout that’s cardio-conditioning, body-toning, and most of all, exhilarating beyond belief.
[ ZUMBA IN THE CIRCUIT ] Maximize your workout while still having a total blast. Zumba in the Circuit is 30 minutes of high-octane, Latin-inspired dance-fitness moves combined with circuit training, a series of strength exercises at timed intervals. Get the metabolism-boosting, strength-building benefits of circuit training while perfecting Zumba moves—all in the same class! Guaranteed to blast calories and thwart boredom, Zumba in the Circuit moves students from one exercise station to the next to the thumping beats of reggaeton, salsa, merengue, hip-hop and more. Be in and out in 30 minutes flat —this time-effective and efficient class can be adapted for all fitness levels.
[ ZUMBA GOLD-TONING ] The Zumba® Gold-Toning program offers the best of both worlds — the exhilarating experience of a Zumba Fitness-Party with the benefits of safe-and-effective strength training. It’s an easy-to-follow, health-boosting dance-fitness program for baby boomers as well as beginners. Through dynamic lightweight resistance training and exciting international rhythms, Zumba Gold-Toning classes help participants build muscle strength, increase bone density, and improve mobility, posture and coordination.
[ ZUMBA SENATO ] The Zumba Sentao™ workout takes the thrill of the fitness-party and partners it with explosive, chair-based choreography to strengthen, balance and stabilize your core, and step up your cardio work in a whole new way. Grab a chair, feel the beat and learn how to use your own body weight to enhance muscle strength, improve definition and endurance, and tone your physique. Strut, shake and shimmy as you work your core (and work the chair) in a high-energy fitness-party that will keep you on the edge of your seat!
INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN
INTRODUCINGDETROIT
VIBETRIBE
THE BEGINNING.On April 4, 2008, Susan Stokely and Christy Baas launched their first Zumba class at Bally Total Fitness in Dearborn. After months of practicing routines, handing out pink flyers and giving demos to explain this new workout called Zumba Fitness, they taught their first class to a packed house! The Zumba Fitness craze was in full effect! Susan’s long time friend and favorite instructor, Cindy came to check out the class and signed up for training that very night! Cindy joined the fun in November 2008 and a third Zumba class was added to the schedule! Friends invited more friends until the lineup of Zumba participants stretched from the studio past the ladies locker room.
MEET SUSAN.Susan’s love for dance started very early. At the age of five, she began dance lessons, putting on dance shows, making up routines with friends, and in high school, choreographing her team’s pom pon and dance routines. Her father was an ad-vocate of exercise, buying her first gym membership in 1986. And among a sea of shiny tights, leotards and legwarmers, Susan took her first aerobics class with now friend and fellow Detroit Vibe Tribe instructor, Cindy DeBiasi. Susan became a regular in Cindy’s classes and was inspired to become an instructor in 1988. She has been ACE certified since 1992. She has taught group exercise classes through the tape cassette, CD and iPod generations and has a passion for mixing her own music. She has taught many formats, including Hilo, step, slide, kickboxing and Hip Hop. Zumba caught her attention in 2007.
In 2010, Susan was selected by Zumba Fitness to be a Zumba Jammer. She regularly presents original choreography sessions for members of the Zumba Instructor Network. She is licensed to teach Zumba, Zumbatomic and Zumba Toning.
She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Univer-sity of Michigan-Dearborn and is a lead systems engineer for a major defense contractor.
Susan is co-owner of Vibe Fit. She enjoys spending time with her husband of 20+ years and two children.
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WE WANTYOU
TO JOIN THEPARTY
THEY HOST A FITNESS PARTY LIKE NO OTHER. THEIR
CLASSES ARE HIGH ENERGY AND FILLED WITH
HAPPINESS. COME LET THE MUSIC MOVE YOU. PARTY
WITH YOUR FRIENDS & MAKE NEW ONES. COME LIVE
FIT & BE FIT. SHARE THIS LOVE WITH EVERYBODY!
MEET CHRISTY.Becoming a fitness instructor nearly 10 years ago after taking Susan’s aerobics and hip hop classes was a natural fit for Christy after a lifetime of playing sports, many elementary recesses making up dance routines, and spending her college years as a high school coach.
She’s taught different exercise formats including aerobics, weightlift-ing, cycling and Pilates. In 2007, she found a fitness party like no other. While attending a national fitness convention in Chicago, she fell in love with ZUMBA and with Susan, brought Zumba Fitness to their classes in Dearborn, Michigan. Today she is a licensed Zumba Fitness instructor in Zumba and Zumbatomic and an AFAA certified Group Exercise Instruc-tor.
Co-owner of Vibe Fit, Christy also is a global branding and media man-ager at an international law firm. She holds a B.A. in communications from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She loves spending time with her family of three.
MEET CINDY.Armed with hyper energy and a whistle, Cindy has spent a lifetime creating her fitness family. Cindy began her instructor career in 1980 at Vic Tanny, now Bally Total Fitness. (Picture big, permed blonde hair, a leopard-thonged body suit and a choreographed aerobics routine to “What a Party!”)
Through her 30+ years, she has inspired many people to improve their health and even become fitness instructors. She has taught numerous formats including hi/lo cardio, Pilates, weighlifting, kickboxing, step, butts & guts and upper body blast. With a dance and pom background, she has also trained high school dance and pom teams.
In 2008, she joined Susan and Christy to teach Zumba Fitness and the trio would become the Detroit Vibe Tribe. She is AFAA certified and licensed to teach Zumba, Zumba Toning and Zum-batomic.
Cindy has been married for almost 30 years and has four daughters and two grandchildren.
