Do you shrink into the background when dance music starts blaring and rumps start shaking?
You’re not alone, but there is a cure.
“Anybody can learn how to dance.
Anybody can learn a step or two and look great doing it,” Ortiz said.
“But first you have to want to dance and express yourself in that way.”
“Let’s say you’re at a party and there’s an amazing band playing.
Just count to four, over and over: that’s the song’s beat.
The next (terrifying) step is to actually move yourfeet.
The step-touch works just like its name.
“You step on one foot, and touch [the opposite foot] with the other.
You’re creating the beat with your feet,” Ortiz said.
How to throw your hands in the air…
Hands can feel awkward when you’re dancing.
They’re just hanging there at the end of your arms.
So what are you supposed to do with your hands when you dance?
Or make like you’re hitting a punching bag, boom, boom, boom.
Pump the ceiling up, you know, with your palms open.
Just have fun.”
when you land a few hand moves, and you’re doing them in time, put everything together.
“Start connecting the dots,” Ortiz says.
“You could fist pump.
You don’t have to think about it, you have to just let your body go.”
Luckily, you don’t have to danceit’s a free countrybut maybe youshoulddance.
Maybe doing things that make us uncomfortable is how we grow.
“Life is too short to worry about, ‘Oh my god, I look crazy.’
People might look at you, or may not look at you, but who gives a fuck?
That’s the freedom.
That’s reaching the moment where you could be free.”
