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TED 07 | From Social Dancing to Performance + Competition with Diana Liu
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In this second part of Bobbie's interview with Diana Liu, they talk about her experiences, performance dancing, and joining a competition.
Diana shares about her first time auditioning and joining competitions, how it helped her understand the differences from social dancing, and how it made her more confident to take on future auditions.
Gaining more wisdom from that experience, she confidently shares tips on keeping the motivation to continue with your goal of becoming a better dancer.
What to expect in this episode:
(00:00) - Introduction.
(00:31) - Performance dancing and competition is a commitment.
(07:05) - Investing time rehearsing at home before class.
(09:37) - Team aspect and keeping motivation and fun.
(12:05) - Audition and competition experiences.
(16:18) - Jack and Jill partner dancing.
About Diana Liu
Diana is a social dancer based in Switzerland. Over the past few years she has been drawn more and more into Bachata as her favourite of the latin dances. She is a festival maestra who has a brilliant knack for combining travel and dance. She has been traveling Europe with dance as her compass over the last couple of years now.
Connect with Diana Liu:
https://www.instagram.com/diana.l888/
About Bobbie Miles:
Bobbie Miles is a social dancer and empowerment coach in the salsa, bachata, and kizomba scene. Dancing is a happy place for Bobbie, as it is for so many. In order to foster safer dance spaces for all dancers, Bobbie is on a mission to promote more accountability and responsibility surrounding boundaries, consent and safety within the community through education and conversations that matter. Bobbie is a coach and advocate for speaking up, boundary setting, and promoting respect in the dance scene. Through The Empowered Dancers Podcast, she promotes transparency, understanding, and accountability and as a coach and public speaker, she focuses on boundary setting and respect in practice, both on and off the dance floor.
Resources:
Download my 5 Top Tips to boost your confidence on any dance night! https://empowereddancers.com/5tips
Practice saying NO on the dance floor: empowereddancers.com/no
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