{"id":173,"date":"2024-07-20T23:12:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T17:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/?p=173"},"modified":"2024-07-20T23:13:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T17:43:25","slug":"the-way-i-got-introduced-to-the-house-dance-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/2024\/07\/20\/the-way-i-got-introduced-to-the-house-dance-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop-Corn Double: The move which got me introduced to the &#8220;House-Dance&#8221; form"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While scrolling instagram reels for dance inspiration, I would always been fascinated with the amazing and well-coordinated footwork, body-waves and so much more of moves that look cool and I would want to try them myself. While I try to copy the moves, most often I play the music and let my body grove to it. And I try to recreate the moves that I could imagine at the moment. Most of my dance imaginations would be inspired by the mood of the music. And this led me to try out some street-style moves in my free-style practice sessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had in my mind the type of dance form I wanted to learn, relaxed upper body with clear grooves and possibly body waves, rhythmic movement of feet and legs, and some smooth moves as if you are flowing on the floor. In particular, I use some similar moves while listening to music in my hostel room for flexing and chilling out. I wondered, and wished, for a list of foundational moves for the dance form I had vaguely in my mind. And then, it turned out, there is a dance form with the key elements as jacking (body waves with grooves), footwork, and lofting ( a fluidic body movement) &#8211; known as &#8220;House Dance&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was yet another leisurely time when I was scrolling my Instagram Feed, and I stumbled upon this video of Rajiv Sir (Kings United) and his team dancing to the bollywood song &#8220;Kabhi Kabhi Aditi&#8221;. So perfectly the moves were fit to the music; that the very first move caught my attention. I tried copying the first move, but the footwork was so very confusing for me them. That was the moment I ardently wished to know if there is a a foundation technique, or a name of the footwork used there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C2M6wfRJPzZ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:640px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C2M6wfRJPzZ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\" target=\"_blank\"> <div style=\" display: flex; 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C2M6wfRJPzZ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by R A J I V    G U P T A (@rajiv_kingsunited)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The very first step of is called &#8220;Pop-Corn Double&#8221;, &#8211; the foundation move I got to know when I came across a tutorial video by Banri Jackin &#8211; thanks to the smart recommendation system by Instagram. It was a part of 100 house dance moves by banri Jackin, where he breaks down the steps thoroughly so that a beginner like me could follow along. Thats when I got to know not only the name of the step, but also the name of the dance form. <br><br>later I found out that Banri Jackin  has a whole youtube playlist, as well as instagram reels which can be used as a dictionary for house dance moves. And from then on I started learning the foundational moves of house dance from his reels and youtube tutorial videos. I am grateful to Banri for his tutorials, which are just the resources I wanted to improve my foundational dance skills in House-form. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@housedance-tutorial\">BANRI Jackin &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/banri_jackin\/\">Banri | House Dance Dictionary (@banri_jackin) \u2022 Instagram photos and videos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While scrolling instagram reels for dance inspiration, I would always been fascinated with the amazing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dance","category-house-dance"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DancePractice.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renuraman.in\/selfdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}