Experience

I loved the Urban Movement Arts House Dip. It was a very small class that had a very good difficulty curve as there were a lot of progressions that built up to the more difficult progressions. Vince provided a lot of iterations and was able to show different iterations or mindsets to help you learn the move. He was very good at explaining what are the typical pitfalls of a movement and how to avoid these pitfalls. In addition to providing various different exercises to help mix up timings and flow moves easily from one to the other.

I will say as an obese dude it is a cardio workout and I was very tired and sore after every class. Which felt fantastic but my hamstrings were really sore after each class. Vince was able to provide some hamstring stretches that helped a lot. So remember to stretch.

The typical structure of a class was jack/jack variations, some combos from the previous week, stretch, and reviewing/learning more vocabulary.

What is the Urban Movement Arts House Dip?

The Urban Movement Arts House Dip is a month long program where you learn the general fundamentals of the house dance style. It was described as a condensed version of some of Urban Movement Arts beginner classes.

Techniques

Here are the various techniques I learned. Take everything with a grain of salt as I’m still very much a beginner in house dance.

• Jack
  • Progressive
    • focus on hips with
    • forward
    • side to side
    • up down
• Timestep
  • move body weight over mid
  • Just sidesteps in any direction
• Triangle (Trang)
• Skate
• dodger
• Sidewalk
• party Machine
  • 1 2 3 4 tempo
  • 1 & 2
• step up
• Heel toe move that i forgot the name move ( I think it was called the forte greene)

Main Stretch

• Lunge

If you want to hear about what it was like to take Urban Movement Arts’ House Dance Competition program that I took before this program.

I also received a discount for other Ubran Movement Arts’ classes.

Overall this was a fantastic experience that I loved