Brian Puspos Adorn

One of Brian Puspos's  videos became a Youtube hit awhile ago. After stumbling upon it over and over again on Youtube, I felt the need to blog about it. So the song that Brian Puspos dances to is a cover of the song Adorn. Adorn originally by Miguel is covered by Travis Garland. The purpose of this choreography was "For her. I know I can't be with you but if I could.."  This quote was said by Brian Puspos. Let's get to the technicalities of dance.

From the moment Brian Puspos starts dancing until the end of his dance, every move that he does has a meaning to it. For example, at 0:31, the lyrics say the word grin. Brian dances and relates his moves to the word grin. Brian's style is creating pictures to the lyrics of the song through his dancing. When watching his dances, most of Brian's moves are connected through the lyrics of the song. In addition, his moves are clean and not messy at all. He executes his choreography extremely well.

Brian Puspos is not only a sensational dancer, but he is the one I look up to for inspiration. The reason why I started dancing was because I discovered Brian Puspos a long time ago on Youtube. Eventually, he danced on live television and I've followed him ever since. This is the link to his Youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/BrianPuspos?feature=watch

Merengue

Most recently, I took a dance class taught by a Spanish teacher at FVHS. Ms. Kennedy taught Merengue to students and teachers who wanted to learn how to dance. In reality, 90% of students came to earn cultural points for their Spanish Class. The other 10% were people like me.

To be honest, the culture points did not really mean much to me when I attended the Merengue class. I just really wanted to learn a new style of dance. Last year, Ms. Kennedy did dance classes for her students, except she taught Salsa dancing. This years first Merengue class was extremely fun. The footwork and timing of the moves were a lot different from what I usually do. In addition, I really enjoyed the Latin American music.

I plan on attending the rest of Ms Kennedy's Merengue classes because I really want to learn new dances and expand on them. To become a better dancer, one must try different and new styles of dance. In addition, my parents are very supportive of me for learning dances such as the ones on the show Dancing With the Stars.

Talent Show Auditions

For those of you who don't know, my friends and I auditioned for two talent shows. One is the Friday Night Live talent show at FVHS. The other is the district wide talent show at HBHS. I am very happy to say that our group made it into both talent shows. Our act is an entire dance routine about three minutes choreographed by ourselves. The original name of the group was The Panty Droppers, but since it was so inappropriate we had to change it to something else. Our new name is the 714 FV Smooth Sassy Boyz with a Z. This name was inspired by the last year's FNL talent show, where our group used the same name.

The 714 FV Smooth Sassy Boyz just want to display their talents and give people a performance they will never forget. We are most popular among the ladies. Just a warning, our dance is going to be extremely sexual, so we expect most of our audience to be beautiful women.

The FNL talent show will take place sometime in April and the District Wide talent show will take place sometime in May.

The Company Workshops

Recently, I attended a hip-hop dance class known as the ORG Workshop Featuring The Company. This dance workshop was hosted by The Organization, which is a junior dance team. The class featured three choreographers from the company, which include Aggie Loyola, Jonathan Shay, and the famous Pat Cruz. This event took place at Quest Dance Studios. 

This workshop was the first time I've ever learned choreography from The Company. The Company is a very well-known adult dance team. The first class was Aggie Loyola. It was about an hour long and we danced to a very smooth R&B song. Before Aggie taught the class, she told us that this dance was inspired by her feelings, and that all of the moves portray how she interprets the song. I was surprised that I was able to keep up with the class. Near the end of the class, Aggie split us into groups to dance the choreography. The groups were filmed and Aggie performed a solo.

The second class was taught by Jonathan Shay. The song we danced to was very fast. The footwork was pretty difficult to learn, but I was able to catch up with the class. Unfortunately, Jonathan was not able to teach much of his choreography because we ran out of time. So, he also split us into groups and we performed his dance. 

I was unable to take the class taught by Pat Cruz because I was so hungry. Right after Jonathan's class, I ran straight to the cafe in the studio and ate a big plate of chicken teryaki. As this was happening, the third class already started, so I was too late.