mydanceout : House Dance

House dance is so widely practiced around the world and has lots of followers and devotees… Funny, but this dance style is pretty new for Georgian dancers and they only just beginning to discover how interesting this style is. Fortunately, I took the opportunity to invite great house dancer from London Aaron Shikamaru Charles (A.C) to teach at D-Star Dance School his class and introduce Georgian dancers to House Dance.

I asked Aaron to tell us a little bit about House Dance during his workshop at D-Star and here are some really good words from A.C.

“House dance was born in the clubs of New York City around the mid 1980's. This is a social dance with many different influences from hiphop, Lindy hop, tap, salsa, rocking, lofting and that's just to name a few. Important reason house dance has so many influences is because of the simple fact, when people (dancers & non-dancers) from different backgrounds of life were in the clubs they spoke to one another through exchanges of body language to communicate, which social dancing was and still is all about. Just like every other style under the street dance umbrella (house dance) has culture, this particular culture involves going to the house (music) nights, sharing the dance with people, making circles (cyphers), having fun and expressing yourself as a person while the music takes you to another place within your body and soul. Some places where house music was played during the 80's were, powerhouse, the loft, warehouse, paradise garage, the music box, power plant and studio 54. Plus major contributors (which are now known as pioneers) to the house dance scene in NYC include Ejoe Wilson, Brian "Footwork" Green, Tony McGregor, Marjory Smarth, Caleaf Sellers, "Brooklyn" Terry Wright, Shannon Mabra, Tony "Sekou" Williams, Shannon Selby (aka Shan S), Voodoo Ray, Chris Sawyer, and many others. I hope you enjoy the experience of the workshop and you can use this dance to help you grow as a dancer as person in and help to share this dance so it doesn't die out and continues to make the clubs full of love and happiness.

Before I forget I will be showing and teaching you foundation covering the footwork, groove, and understanding the movements of house dance so the level will be beginners so don't worry if you can't get a certain movement, mistakes are the greatest learning skill in my classes. AC konoha”

Thanks to Aaron for great workshop and his love to share knowledge and energy :)