(revised part) i watched future on anasma's other video and while he kills, slaughters and maims regarding his performance on her thang, his teaching here in his own project is like floating in and FEELING his knowledge.
(he's also great teaching alongside anasma in her videos, also available from world dance new york. they complement each others' work well.)
he'd dated himself in anasma's vid by saying he's been doing this since '80, back when i used to steal from alexander's on fordham road, back when they'd smack down linoleum and that's why he's so riiiight-- he's before crack, poverty, capitalism/gentrification, mass imprisonment/enslavement of our men/boys interrupted the teachings and lessons of power and honor in our neighborhoods. he's a line to the original inspiration and beauty, and beyond and above simple "technique." you've gotta get the philosophy and imbibe it, live it, feel it, and sing the song in your way. it's not just dance. it's empowerment, joy, resistance and freedom. it's a way of doing/being.
i read reviews of dance DVDs and i scratch my head because it all seems so surgical and stilted. i'm trying to find the larger mystical connections as my own art evolves and it's dry out there in the way of teachers who've been dragged behind the trucks of their artistic endeavors. art will kick your behind... if you're doing it right.
(back to passion/discipline and the eternal balancing act)
so i'm glad i found this. future's a whole experience. he's culture, too. he's GROWN and i'm grateful for some challenging adult artist teachings. reminds me of home and the artists and teachers and philosophers who made me the artist i am today. you've gotta have a base, a grounding before you're putting tinsel on anything.
anyhow, i hope future does a series of DVDs where he authors the time/delivery because he's a natural. i could just watch him teach without even moving because he's a wild lullaby. you just could watch and watch and listen. his voice and body and spirit move all in the same direction and he intuits his students' minds well.
this is what we were supposed to have brought to america. soul and heart. time for a return to that and let technique and flash sit out the first dance. this is a form of prayer and "i was here" graffiti. a song. all that gushy art stuff. passion with discipline. that's what future's work apparently seems to be about. fusing passion and discipline with giving back and teaching another way of "telling stories" with your dance.
and with the audacity and pomp of "i was here." it's a beautiful thing. when it's beyond that ego thing. when it's "you are here with me, too."
thanks, future. that's why you look eternally young. because you are. so alive.
amazing of you to share your whole heart like that. you never rush through. so in the moment!
world dance new york is amazing for existing and building such a library.
(to do a series with future would be very "future thinking" because he's also straight up history and a lasting line to the future)
if world dance new york had more output, i'd be inclined to join a "month of the vid club" if they had one for different genres.
but it's gotta be expensive with all the hard copies and the system, just like with book publishing, i imagine.
--erika lopez in san francisco
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(written earlier)
he's beautiful because he's beyond technique and into the philosophy and love of the dance and how to live life. see for yourself. so many others skate on surfaces like mosquitoes because they don't know there's a whole world under the surface of the water yet. i can see how it'd be hard to "market" him because the women imbibing all the bellydance vids should watch this for a nice foundation on getting the mind and body right with the mind.
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Waves of the Future Hip-Hop and House Dance with Future
Rhythms, Technique, Practice with a New York City hip-hop dance star
Waving: The illusional improvisational street hip-hop dance style that you THOUGHT you could never do! Future has been makin' it happen on the NYC hip-hop scene since the '80s and in this program he shares it ALL with you. Follow Future to develop that extreme fluidity of movement through precise muscle control, combined with the power of visualization. You can create the illusion of waves traveling through your body, making it look like your body is a liquid being poured from glass to glass...
House Dance: In this section of Future's instructional hip-hop dance waving program he teaches House dance moves and combinations, and Waving as used in house dance. Multi-dimensional full body waves. Footwork patterns that are easy to combine with waves for a varied and dynamic performance.
Click the video above for a tiny taste of what you are going to get in this 260-minute hip-hop waving and house dance instructional program – featuring the famous Future.
Basics of hip-hop waving & combinations
Advanced waves and combinations
House dance moves and combinations
Waving in house dance
Future starts by listening to the beat of the music, finding and keeping the rhythm, then introduces his unique system of isolations, preparing you for multi-dimensional full body waves. Then he offers a detailed tutorial. Learn the dance!
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