Thread: What 3 things are you good at?

So, since the "What were/are the 3 most difficult..."-thread seems to be a success. Lets try something more difficult :)

Give us 3 things you are good at in dance!

This time, I will let someone else start :) Here's the format:

Style(s):
1.
2.
3.

I am good at:
1) copying styles - since I am an actress in disguise. There was a time when I did so much copying Dina, Amani, Suheir, that I hardly knew my own style anymore!

2) Lebanese style - although sadly around here it's not very much in demand

3) anything that requires a lot of expression. Actress, I told you

MEISSOUN

if meissoun is brave, i can be too.
1..depicting the music
2...that i nail my soul to the dance, (have no choice ) i am who you see.
3..when coaching/teaching, changing my words to fit how each student hears.

Ok then here goes
1. shaabi
2. shamadan.
3. Obsessively researching the back ground to everything I teach.

1. Incorporating 3 different learning styles when teaching Sagat.
2. Dancing with abandon and the feelings rumbling inside.
3. Arabic Fusion (a pinch of this, a dash or that, and Viola' - Arabic Fusion)

1. Emotion -- I wear my heart on my sleeve and, seemingly, on my face!
2. Shimmies
3. Seeing the big picture

Souzan

As a dancer:
1. Belly rolls
2. Improvising
3. Feeling the music

As a teacher:
1. Research
2. Strictness when I explain
3. Empathy with students

1) Hip locks
2) Not quitting, even though I'm not good at a lot of things.
3) Having good ideas for choreography or how to style things. I somehow have something to suggest for a lot of people's things, even though I struggle to choreograph myself.

Love this thread idea! But David I want to know the 3 things you are good at too!

3 things I am good at:

1. Engaging the audience whether it's onstage, in a resturant or at a party.
2. Remembering choreography. Once I've learned it... I retain it.
3. Eagle eye. In a troupe piece I can always spot the person who's timing is off & or when a formation is off. Too many years spent on dance team in High school & college.

1. shaabi
2. stage presence/emotional expression
3. improv

1. Taxsim
2. Amayas
3. Arms or at least the energy in my arm movements

{{HUGS}}

1) Zills
2) Veils
3) HipWork

1. Dancing with live music
2. Stage presence (my boss once told me I 'fill the room')
3. Improv

1) 3/4 down shimmies and variations thereof
2) Jewels and other gooey things
3) Musicality

Also, being a big old ham and showing others how, but that's four.

1. Shimmies/hip work
2. Live music/improv
3. Layering moves to interpret different instruments playing at the same time.

Egyptian Style.
1. Expressing my love of dancing.
2. Staying calm, not needing to fill in everything with movement.
3. Shimmies.

Egyptian style
1. Musicality
2. Shimmies
3. Presentation (confidence, expression, stage presence)

I'd like to add versatility between the stylistic and expressionwise differences between genres in a style. (Shaabi, Saiidi, Gawazee, Sharki etc) if I added a 4th one.

1. Improv.
2. Stage presence.
3. Belly work.

1. Rhythm
2. Drum Solos
3 Arms (or so i've been told)

1.Zills
2.Jewels and their variations
3.Soheir Zaki hip downs

1. musicality
2. improv
3. teaching (though I'm not a licensed teacher or anything)

Egyptian Style:
- arabesques
- spins/turns
- fancy footwork

hmm..

1. engaging the audience
2. learning/creating/teaching choreography
3. musicality

1. Goo
2. Smiling~engaging those around me
3. Learning to appreciate me/not allowing myself to get in my own way...eventually. I have stuck with this dance despite hesitations due to comparing myself to abso-freaking-lutely everyone and always, in my own eyes, coming up short. (I realize this might sound sad and perhaps not actually something of which I should be proud and yet I am. Hey, I'm growing! )

1. Seeing the music. (If you don't understand that, George Balanchine once said "See the music and hear the dance")
2. Understanding the background of belly dance, and being ready to educate on it even though I do what would be classified as "Tribal Fusion"
3. Chest isolations

1. improvisation
2. turkish roma
3. baba karam

1. Learning choreogaphy. Fast.
2. Haggala Hips
3. That's about it ;-)

1. Drum Solos
2. Chest & Hip Isolations
3. Floorwork

Before baby, lol...

Style(s): Oriental
1. Arms/Hands
2. Belly rolls
3. Chest/Hips

Originally Posted by maranajla

3. Learning to appreciate me/not allowing myself to get in my own way...eventually. I have stuck with this dance despite hesitations due to comparing myself to abso-freaking-lutely everyone and always, in my own eyes, coming up short. (I realize this might sound sad and perhaps not actually something of which I should be proud and yet I am. Hey, I'm growing! )

Actually I think that's a wonderful thing to be proud of. A lot of students never make it that far. Go girl!!!