You may ask….What does dancing through your core even mean❓️😕
Let me explain!!! Take notes📝📋
The engagement or disengagement of your core muscles (pelvis, lower back, hips, butt, and stomach) determines the type of visual your movement depicts.
To have control over your movement, you need some level of engagement of your core. Like an athlete, it prepares you to move and execute or express specific movement with more visual accuracy.
When you dance through your core, you also create this term we use constantly in our classes – Groundedness. Groundedness is achieved through different intensities of core engagement. Once your core is engaged, you are able to manipulate textures as well as articulate your movement to shape what you are hearing or how you want to express it.
Now, there are different levels of core engagement. A slight engagement allows you to be soft and graceful. A stronger or complete engagement allows you to hit stronger beats or make a statement.
That is the beauty of dancing through your core when it comes to movement. Whether your core is slightly engaged or completely engaged, it allows you and your limbs to be relaxed enough to flow with your body. Even the complete release of your core creates a specific visual like a puppet detached from its strings. So think of your core engagement as the puppet master of the movement you create.
So, if you find yourself struggling to recreate the movement that you are seeing, it is most likely something you can’t actually see👀. That is the intensity of your core engagement. Once you understand the engagement level of your core, the rest is elementary.