As a dancer, whether you are a beginner or advanced, you may wonder how to improve balance when dancing.
Have you noticed that you’ve done the same turn over and over again, and every time you feel out of balance?
Do you feel like you keep losing balance when you start dancing with a technique like Cuban motion in the Salsa or rise and fall in the Waltz?
Do you use your partner as a “crutch” to avoid falling?
Read on and find out how to fix your balance issues when dancing!
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This is Why Your Balance Sucks When You Dance
1. You Dance Lazily
You dance lazily when you don’t engage all necessary muscle groups. What does that mean? In order to do a dance move, you only use certain muscles, for example, your feet or legs. The rest of your body is sort of going with the flow and feels floppy. This is called lazy dancing.
In other words, you completely forget about the rest of your muscle groups, like the core, glutes, posture, arms, where your head is turned, etc.
How To Improve Balance When Dancing?
To fix this, for every move you make, think about engaging your entire body, even the smaller muscle groups. It might not work out right away, but practice makes perfect, right?
2. You Forget to Squeeze… the Cheeks
Glutes are some of the key muscles that you need to engage to make sure you are balanced when dancing.
How To Improve Balance When Dancing?
Whether it comes to turns, quick stops or change of direction, you have to “squeeze” your butt cheeks to help your body keep the balance. Test it out and you will see a huge difference in your balance.
3. You Look Down
If you’ve studied the dance floor very well and remember the color, lines, and patterns, and you hardly remember looking at the walls or your partner, guess what? You look down a lot. A LOT.
Not only that looking down makes you feel dizzy, but it gets you out of balance. Why? Because you stop “spotting” your directions and get “lost” in the space because the floor becomes your space.
How To Improve Balance When Dancing?
However, when you pay attention to your surroundings at your eye level (whether you are dancing inside surrounded by walls or outside), it is way easier to understand you directions and, consequently, keep your balance.
4. You Are Too “Toesy”
It is a huge mistake to always dance on your toes and not put your heels down. If you dance Latin and Ballroom dance styles on your tippy toes without fully planting your feet, you automatically have less control. In addition to that, this does not make your dancing look good either.
How To Improve Balance When Dancing?
Plan those heels! Even in Latin dances, when you are supposed to step with the ball of your foot, you have to put your heel down and plant your foot after you take the step.
5. You Are Slouching
Your core is relaxed and the back is crooked.
How To Improve Balance When Dancing?
Engaging your back and core is crucial to your balance. So, it will feel like something is attached to the top of your head and is pulling you up.
Final Thoughts
Now there you have it. Five major tips on how to improve your balance when dancing. If you’d like more tips on improving your dancing, check out our blog post 5 Simple Daily Practices to Improve Your Dancing. Keep up the practice and make sure you are practicing right!
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