Name: Playbook - Kristy Sellars - Step 1: Choosing the right song
Uploaded: 2023-02-20T02:33:14.163Z
Duration: 15 min
Description: Step 1: Choosing the right song

One exception to the if it’s there part…. There’s this modern industrial song I have wanted to film a dance to for years, but choreographers told the first few bands to start making this more modern industrial (which is 80s electro combined with metal, but with a variable time signature) that due to the time signature changes it would be impossible to choreograph or dance to, cyber goth industrial dancers took that as a dare and well….. I have so many parts of it, but oh my word I do not have enough experience yet to be able to get it anywhere near how I want it to look with the pole parts, so it’s going in the long term project hole and I’ve chosen another song for inspire with a video game theme so a bit easier to work with this early on, and it easily fits within the time limit too

DarkCyanide

How many weeks would you recommend for a routine if you're starting from square one? Song is chosen but no choreo yet.

Brandy

Nico-Marie

WOW, so much depth to choosing a song, not as easy as I thought, good to know! 🙌🏾

Rose

Love the advice. Can't wait to use it for finding my first song for my first performance when I'm feeling "ready" 💗

Jade

In this video I talk about my process for finding the right song for a performance. I hope it’s helpful for you!

Step 1: Choosing the right song

Step 10: From studio to stage

Step 9: Finding space

Step 8: Tweaking your chory- time hack

I really appreciated this!! I did a modified version before my performance last week and it was super helpful!! Thank you!

Elaina

The pre-show warmup video was soooo helpful! Thank you very much! I’m definitely guilty of applying layers over layers of grip while I wait to perform. I’m going to add this warmup to my pre-performing routine. I absolutely love your app. Great work! xx

Angele

Real time- Side stage warm up

Stage fright acting up is one of the big things that makes me struggle with this, makes me realise how lucky we are in aus because we learn so much about performing within the standard school curriculum and so much is coming back to me, but no one has ever had a valid answer on coping mechanisms for stage fright once you’re actually ON STAGE, and with stuff this physical the typical ballet etc “just spew first” is NOT a valid option cause that will just lead to a fainting episode lol

I love this and thing you are spot on. Before Pole I spent 8 years as a competitive ballroom dancer. One of the most important lessons I learned as part of performing (even with a partner) is to find your center and show this powerful lead from the chest/breastbone. Your extremities are supposed to be soft and light but your body a frame. I took this training into pole and I get comments all the time of looking “powerful” / commanding “attention because you move with intention. I think you can right away see someone who is control of their frame versus letting their arms and legs or head pull them in the direction they are going. It’s not about looking stiff. It’s about embracing and showcasing this dancer posture - you see it in classical ballet as well. Strong but soft. It’s hard to do as more muscles are working and you have to practice each move. But once you execute it, is beautiful and unforgettable

Phoenix

This explanation is beautiful and what dancing and all forms of art are all about. It comes from the soul💕.Thanks for explaining the area it comes from and an awareness of it!

Yenth’l Garcia Isaac

Step 7: Stage Presence

That umbrella brooch… trying to work out my costume for inspire and trying to work out what the actual lines are on what can and can’t damage the poles, wanting to wear a steel boned Underbust corset, and wanting to use one I already have as it’s already worn in so I can get proper movement, but been trying to work out whether I will need to give it a padded panel over the front steel busk closures to protect the pole.

Nicole

Great costume ideas and advice! Thank you !

Step 6. Costume

I think we also have to be careful watching too many videos on social media and following other people’s journey when we are also in the crap phase. I find personally I have to go at my own pace and very few people post their crappy sessions or their failures. So we live in a sea of seeing the end but not the process. Great video.

This is exactly what I needed to hear! Great advice. Little tips and 'pushes' like this are what we all need at times. Will be replaying this on days where i need the discipline

Michelle

Where good and great separate

Thanks Kristy!!! We have exactly the same taste for show music! Thanks for sharing your gold with us!

Shicara

I've been waiting for this one 👀 thank you for sharing such a personal thing with us. Keen to go down that rabbit hole with your playlist and hopefully spark some creativity!

My personal SHOW music playlist

I struggle with choreography but I have always found that I have pieces in my head long before I start physically putting it together! And yep, playing my song on repeat to mentally run my routine is SUPER helpful! But by the time I perform, I am sick of that song! 😂

Step 5. Speeding up the choreography process

I love it! I’m just starting to train for my competition at the end of April and I was derailed by being sick for over a week! Ugh!!

Step 4. Planning your training schedule

This is all super helpful, I'm currently on holiday but it feels good to know I'm still working on bits and pieces whilst away by organising all of what's in my head!

Francesca

Step 3. Staging

Very helpful to get out of your head and have a place to start when coming up with something. : )

Megan

The tips and advice are very helpful! Thankyou so much for simplifying things!

Step 2. Creating a storyline

Serious question, when sore, what topicals are not gonna damage the poles? I used Zen gel, wiped it back off and then taped my knees and then knee pads over for ignite, but my chiro and physio both use fisiocrem, Zen is just more effective with limited places it can be due to the arnica, but if something like this isn’t gonna hurt the poles, my muscles would so appreciate it. So now it’s totally irrelevant, I actually changed my bio the Monday before, in 2016 I was hit by a car as a pedestrian crossing the road in Brunswick, and I had to learn to walk again and drs said I couldn’t, I didn’t want sob story points and to get into finals for silly reasons but you’ve already scored now, but uhh yeah they said I’d never walk and here I am climbing poles… and you beginning PhysiPole and making the huge changes to societal opinions of pole has gotten me through the last stage of my rehabilitation and I can climb stairs again since learning to climb a pole…. Kinda just realised I should tell you that you’re literally changing lives for the better

Recovery Hacks

Very helpful. I just started doing this. I was hesitant because I tend to be hard on myself but now instead I look how I made small progresses and it is encouraging!

Love filming it all just hate the mass deletion after 🤣

Why you should film yourself from the very start!

Love these tips!! Thank you for sharing all this great information!

I’m a big Pinterest user for ideas!! Love these tips!

🎨 3 Steps to be more creative

Satheene

Encouraging and left feeling inspired and excited

Project a ‘High Vibrational Frequency’ when performing! 💓
Oh and I know my great grandparents names.🤭

Step 1: Choosing the right song

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