Dance Everywhere –Part 1

No matter how good your dancing is,

The most important is how MUCH you love DANCE!

The articles you will read in “Dance Everywhere”, perhaps they are not full time dancers, or maybe you didn’t know them before. But they already danced for years in several years, with their passions. We will find some miracles around this Earth; even just happened in a corner of the next street!

So, let’s keep forward each story in “Dance Everywhere” !!!

A surfing girl loves poles – Jasmine Lu

Jasmine is sales in electricity industry, outgoing personality, has learned dance around 10 years. Now she focuses on Sexy dance and Pole dance.

At beginning, she learned dance because saw the beautiful ballet costumes with her sister when she was a child. But now, she keeps dancing because she CAN’T live without dance!

For her, dancing is absolutely happy thing in her life. The only thing she needs is moving with the music. No matter she dance well or not, she is still happy and enjoys that moment. Dancing changing the most is her personality. She was a quiet child, didn’t like to play with other kids, always in a corner with silent tear…..But now, she is totally different. She is into a cheerful naughty girl for sure!

At first, she took pole dance just because of challenging herself. Finally she falls in love with this dancing combined beauty and power. She said, “I prefer the American style, inward but sexy. Pole dance is difficult because you have to use every muscle in your body to sustain each movement. But you still need to show it in a gentle, sexy way. Every movement, each detail must be very careful. Otherwise, a same movement as one turn, you could be very charming, but you could probably be a hanging frog too! ”

The most Hip-Hop mommy in Taiwan – Yuki Chen

It’s difficult to believe Yuki is a mom with two children! A lady works in day time, be a mom in night time, and also is a work hard student in HRC street dance studio. With amazing energy, Yuki attended HRC performance several times. She made impressed on many companies and teachers.

Yuki easily accepts new fashion concept. She tries variety of hip-hop dance types in these three years. She is happy to try every different type of street dance. Yuki said, she likes the feelings that dance brought to her, and dance also makes her physical and spiritual healthy and strong.

Yuki said, the most frustration for her is the bad at remembering the choreography. But in fact, the most hip-hop mother in Taiwan is really great!

The Shanghai girl loves to dance – Cindy

  For tiny Cindy, at beginning she started learning dance is to want to lose weight. But then she dances with true love. “Dancing makes me happy.” Cindy said.

  I am a shy person actually, not confident to myself, and always thinks too much. But dancing makes me more confident and I can begin to release my emotions slowly……

Cindy learns Bellydance and Salsa in these two years. She found her favorite dancing is Salsa. You can dance happily with simple steps and relaxing music. This time, she met an important teacher to her – Jenny Yao. “Jenny made me realize that technology is not the most important thing in dance. Dancers should be able to add feelings into music while dancing. Move with the music.”

For Cindy, the most proud of herself is she made a tribal bellydance choreography be herself in one performing few months ago. And she got many complications form that performance. She is happy that she could start dancing with emotion now, not just with a poke face. But sometimes she can’t perform with the group because her height, that makes her upset a lot.

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