How to be more creative | Hip Hop Freestyle Dance Advice

[@lailak.]

19:07 'We started dancing to express not impress" BRUH🙌🏾

[@AniMeLoVeR23451]

But he also said you can't express yourself very well if you are not good,so to express you have to impress? Hahaha sounds funny

[@victornoagbodji]

"change your environment" that one resonated with me 👍

[@luizawasilewska3630]

Maan, you are too smart. For sure whole dance community is so thankful for your help, your words, your lessons. What you do means a lot to me. Big love

[@GrowingDownUnder]

My way of being creative is: 1. Concepts - if you have a concept as a certain way of moving or a style you can then create moves within that style & concept 2. Lines, angles & anatomy - how your body can move and the mechanics of the limbs, muscles, different angles with the body and the lines of the body in different poses and positions. You can also use the negative space to create the illusion of lines which aren't actually there for example a right angle gives the illusion of a box even though only half the box is there and mime is another example of using negative space to show something which isn't there but is an illusion. Can also have different limbs using different lines all at the same time moving in different directions 3. Continuous motion - where the last move finishes the next move begins, you can start or stop a move at any part of the body. For example wave to the feet>do something with feet>wave back up....you can use turning, isolating, rotating shapes & changing perspective of moves by taking moves to the ground, etc... These are my main ways to be creative

[@virendragaikwad3887]

Yo thankyou

[@pasoapaso6989]

12:05 Word!! "This one minute will not define who I am" ...well explained!

[@antong7417]

I'm fascinated how your explanations on dance topics are appropriate for so many parts of our lives. Never stop learning

[@michakucharski9141]

Kevin. Today I felt fear to dance on the stage a front of 3 singers. I work as an animator so I felt obliged to dance, even do my manager didn't ask me for it. I was having a battle with myself inside. After all I had to release all of this stress through crying. I couldn't sleep trying to find the reason why and I noticed that I'm very hard for myself. After watching your video, I realize that all I need is a break from freestyle, and just living my life for a while. Thank you. It is hard to believe how smart you are when you talk about processing your dance in your mind. Great!

[@baraaljamal9828]

Usually what helps me be more creative is freestyling and then taking note whenever i land a really cool move or combo

[@Malabarismo]

Really enjoying these talks! Thx a lot for sharing. Have you ever been to Brazil? Would love to meet you one day. It’s amazing how all these concepts can totally be applied for juggling. Best wishes and keep the great content (and dance!) coming! 💥

[@nicksterlouw8647]

I've never clicked so fast on a video than I did now. Kevin you're amazing!!!

[@ericdodji]

17:40 Paradox: "Don't take my answer as the answer." Me: "Makes totally sense!"

[@KevinParadox]

Hi guys, I'm super happy I was able to record new Ask A Paradox for ya'll. Hopefully I answered some of your dance questions on the topic creativity! As said in the video please do not take my advice as the total truth. I can only give tips from my own experiece, but how those tips resonate with your dance is up to you to find out through practice. I would love to hear from you in the comments if any of my advice resonated with you. Hopefully this was a usefull how to video and I was able to shed some new light on being creative!

[@nomadicsoul6144]

🤣🤣🤣🙈This is crazy. I have been ignoring Kevin's channel for months, because of a very crazy reason. And today I told myself OK its time. It's Sunday afternoon so instead of logging into Club Djoon's channel let me now watch Kevin. And here I discovered that Creativity is creativity across many fields. A dancer. No let me call Kevin what he is. A creative not a dancer. That's putting him in a box. A creative just explained blockages to me in a very cool, honest way. A gift wrapped in a motivating Enigma placed in a human dancing form... What a Paradox.

[@israela9631]

Legend has it that paradox is the type of Kevin who is GOAT 👊😎🎶

[@AlexWwwild]

"Instead of finishing the painting right away, they let it breath they let it talk and they experience life in order to share that life into the painting." How beautiful is that!

[@LesTwinnieEdits]

This is my first time hearing you talk... i’m fascinated about how you described and explained certain things/topics in this video! 💘 Wow!

[@suzanbadeturkkan1728]

This man really changed my life

[@doduom301]

How can someone so perfect exist

[@ytamic]

You’re such a beautiful human being! Not just a great and humble dancer, but also have an intelectual mind. Good influence for people who look up to you. Sending you a big hug xx

[@BoogieSmurf_]

Don’t know if anyone caught what he said about vocabulary But he also slid in a wake up call for the nerds and geeks in the world don’t be afraid to fully be yourself at all especially if its a field you are 100% familiar with

[@gilbertsalas6621]

Im an artist and this way of explains dance is prefect . It’s how I explain color theory in painting

[@ABRASILERA17]

True, cultivated, refined humble, evolving, free energy from you since day 1 You are such a prime example

[@madspy8368]

He is too honest to be a profitable dance instructor but i love it and respect him more because of it .

[@GajanandamaniAdhikari]

he is the one who beat Laurent and most of criminalz. damn listen to him!

[@sandrajackson9949]

Paradox are you going to start or do you already have a clothing line. I really love the shirts you have been wearing with your name on them. The one you wore at the return of your battling in the peridot green and the one you have on in this video. If you do have a line could you put where we could purchase these items, I’m hoping for this. Thank you 😊

[@ВероникаБеденко]

Thank you very much! I'm so inspired by you, these advices are very useful for me now! I think, this video have founded me at the right moment. I feel myself burned, because I pressed myself very long time. But now I'm ready to take some rest and forgive myself and then try something new.

[@robinvarghese6404]

Most humble dancer #RespectfromIndia ...

[@alquinnaa]

Kevin mannnnnnnn, you should consider running a podcast ! you have so much knowledge to share and itd be awesome to hear you and other like minded dancers exchange insights with certain topics ! Keep it up the good work

[@ashishmathous1214]

The painting cocept was a great example

[@zervinho]

Greetings from Greece and Thessaloniki ! Your mentality means a lot to me !

[@toomnu]

Thank you again goat

[@jacksonfrancis9055]

So happy to hear this brother ❤

[@derrickgichaba]

😭😭 thanks you for all of this it’s exactly what I needed

[@smakshsharma]

Thank you very much sir ❤️🌱

[@Exorym]

Love this part of ask Paradox, it opened my thought quite a bit, i habe this dancerblockage right now, and i understand now what to do, just because of what you said. I have to step back for a little and find myself again, or else im not really going to grow as a dancer, because my mind is holding me back. Thanks Kevin🙏🏻 you are truly a mentor for some dancers out there.👌🏻

[@joaoquinaz5050]

I'm not sure if I agree about what you said when you say we should not to be stressed when dancing and you must feel good. I feel in order to experience the good things dance has to offer (emotions, good vibes, expression, etc) you need to be disciplined. And that means most of the times you don't feel necessarily good, or you would choose do something more comfortable (playing video games). The good stuff come when you submit yourself to the stress in order to brake barriers and achieve new learnings and emotions, that will worth it when you get there. I think that can be generalized to other areas not only to dance...

[@Ibrahimmuhammed97]

Yo big fan bruh!! Happy that you are back

[@mikelrenzhuavas4663]

I really need this right now cuz i have a battle on sat so thank you sir Kevin

[@Its_slims96]

thank u bro for the knowledges and more love from china

[@ЛарисаПопова-ф4г]

The most insightful reflections/tips on freestyle I've seen so far...

[@mowmow2696]

We start dancing to express, not to impress. So powerful words to me. Thank you bro 😊

[@cedricdors]

Very insightful not to forget relatable and inspiring bro! So proud of all you do for the community, keep on exchanging man!👊🏾

[@treushooto]

Thanks Kevin for sharing your insight and being a inspiration in many ways. Hearing you talk and especially seeing you dance and expressing yourself opened my mind again and seeing dance more as the art form it is. I always loved music but starting to connect to it on a deeper level again and trying to express myself by dancing like I once did as a kid listening to Michael Jackson. I wished I hadn't lock it away for so long and hurts a bit that I had to unlock it by looking at video's on KZbin. I'm already 32 and it feels like I'm too late to dedicate myself to it as much as I would want to or even make a career out of it. Are you still teaching and are there people in your classes near my age? Hope you recover quickly and shine on a stage once again soon. Take care!

[@RaoulMoreira]

8:00 Buddhism explained beautifully! Your metaphors are amazing man.

[@ВиталийРашевский-х6н]

Thank you , man for all you do for the hip hop culture . It is amazing . My question is not about dancing , it will be about money . Can you please explain how people can earn money from dancing , maybe your story )

[@robot.kareem]

what a mind opening speech! thank you

[@EllaRobyn]

Many thanks for this 🙏🏽 Don't make us wait too long for the next one!

[@ezioflor]

Nice🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏾

[@jackwilkinson3266]

thanks for taking the time to go over some much needed and not so much talked about vital components of dance, movement and the journey itself. Thanks for being you homie!

[@logicbehindtheprocess]

I love you and your words🥰😍🤩 So relaxing .........😇

[@tafriwithextreme3616]

I am from india and your videos have helped me a lot . Thanks for being there and teaching these amazing thing👍🤍

[@Iamkenzo97]

Such a great help thank you!!!

[@kunalhopster]

Plz also upload the video about topic -how to create new steps or movement for hip hop dancers in choreography .......

[@jerryanderson2543]

Great information. Your advice on creativity, I'm going to start using it in my posing routines. Keep killing it! 🙏💪👊

[@danielmarcelo7624]

Yo! Its been a week since i found a video of you dancing and now im still here watching even if im not a dancer. Your advice is not just about dancing, its about being creative in other form of art. About your experience, about life. I love watching and listening about your advice about your opinions of life and art. Im facing problems i didn't now what i hope it not turn to depressions, but since im listening to your advice it helps me a lot. It help me too be calm to the situation i can't hanlde, to look the other side of life. You inlighten me your helping too understand more about life and to finding ways where my mind my soul my body to become one. Continue for making this continue throwing snowballs for us ☝ Greetings from philippines ✨

[@xexeer14]

Man I’m about to get back to dancing and I want you to know you’re a huge part of the reasons that I’m having the courage to do it. Thank you for being so inspiring. Also you made me realize that inspiring people are the opposite of toxic people, so we need more people like you in the world. I hope your content reaches and helps a lot more people ! ❤️❤️❤️

[@ameerbader]

Wow i love it Every dancer need to understand this words It's importnant Good job that's a really a nice speach 🥂

[@BhargabBarman]

Thank you so much for this knowledge

[@ahip-hopper1218]

Thanks for guidance brother 🙏

[@thomasmbassegue9565]

it's was so long omg, we just Misssss you...

[@HeyEllygance]

i'm glad i found this video i needed to hear this

[@tadiwamadzongwe1010]

Beautiful man. Thank you a lot for this

[@daniyelzhumankulov7733]

So inspiring)) And it was for sure really helpful information cause I felt like I was stuck and not growing but this should help me

[@mikeygonzalez._]

I started dancing to Express not to impress ❤️ thank you

[@ugyenbalay]

Thank you bro... For nice information... ❤❤❤

[@madspy8368]

I love your honesty and will respect ,look up to it forever ....

[@darealbigdaddyb8170]

I appreciate you taking the time to speak on this, connected with a lot of what you said and it’s awesome to see hear how u look at things!

[@tinci2503]

Thank you for another beautiful video. I'd like you to let us know how are you in general and to talk about your experience and feelings about Summer Dance Forever battles this year. We all know what you went through and probably still are since your operation. That's it. :)

[@poly7926]

I really loved this content! Especially the topic of how to apply a vocabulary, helped me a lot. About the limits that create freedom, this connects with something very simple that I heard from a teacher: dancing to a song, whether choreographing or improvising, I don't follow the proposal to unload everything I have, but to give to her only the lines of expressiveness and movements she asks for.

[@totalunconcern]

lmao what?! was thinking yesterday about watching your old video on this problem, uploads a video a day after! this man is a paradox for real

[@kookies_heart.97]

U r so motivating and my inspiration to keep going ❤

[@Kitanaisback]

What makes a high level hip hop dancer ? Or someone’s hip dance advanced .are there things that need to be met as a prerequisite of some sort ?

[@Th3SmileyProject]

Just practice and experience really. The more time you spend repeating and experimenting the technique, the more you will understand the style. A professional can easily see the difference between a dancer who does the moves and a dancer who understands them. All because of experience.

[@AlexBDancer]

really inspired, thank you ^^

[@nomadicsoul6144]

So Baie Baie dankie Kevin. Diep uit die onder punt van Afrika. Ek waardeer jou raad. I know the Flemish understand Afrikaans easier than Dutch. So in translation. Thank you very, very much Kevin. Deep from the bottom of Africa. I highly appreciate your advice. 🌍

[@neerajshiledar8681]

Amazing Advice

[@kanweebilly6980]

Yo, thanks bro! Always helps to hear your advice/opinions :)

[@frankamisi9569]

Yessiirrr

[@arvindaron2350]

Sounds Amazing brodha 💜💙💚💛🧡❤🖤

[@sagarswaggerproduction1817]

You so so so helpful really love you buddy ... One day meet you

[@Deodorjay]

You're a gem of a person ❤

[@SouldomArt]

Ok, I wanna thank you and welcome back. Hope u have a good health.

[@nbmnbm3760]

Gracias

[@KiaraLaRose]

Thank you so much for dedicating your time to help others who are experiencing what you have experienced on more than 1 occasion. This information has help me take a new perspective on my creative block. I feel more up to exploring and problem solving versus feeling defeated and uninspired. I'm excited to apply this to my movement and life in general. You are greatly appreciated! 🙏🏾💙

[@tinarostami2892]

Thanks alot🙏 I really needed this !

[@CuongNguyen-wn6oi]

I have learned so much from your video. Please keep it up! Thank you!

[@VaibhavRwt]

Thank you Sir for actually taking out time and giving us exactly what we need at this moment❤ You don't know and I honestly can't tell u how much these videos are helping me. So, thank you 🌹❤

[@Mrsterich]

Thanks for your heart and principles!

[@humanbeingprobably]

I looooove all the metaphors. This is really inspiring 💖

[@neerajshiledar8681]

So inspiring ✨️

[@eugenemess3229]

When are you coming to Suriname? We would be amazed to meet you .

[@田甜-p4r]

Love this video. About changing the environment, sometimes you feel the urge to do so, but don't know where to start. Even you tried, the trying did not work most of the time. What can I do? Take it easy. Keep trying, I guess.

[@田甜-p4r]

And sometimes, it's about changing your own way of looking at the world. Many problems are essentially the same one. Maybe changing your own mind set will work.

[@taishivision2589]

beautiful words and well said. helped me understand a lot. Thank you

[@themanojofficial6811]

💥💥🐯

[@celin1714]

Please, Paradox advise me, how to create or use my originality, or how to be original in dancing 😌

[@evkazakova3687]

Thank you🌸

[@sebasjimenez2010]

Gracias por tu tiempo para dejarnos enseñanzas 🤟🏼, con este video abrí un poco mi mente, me sentí identificado con los temas que hablaste y siento que ver esto me va ayudar mucho para mejorar.

[@crimneezz8900]

Much Love you a Lot Paradox Sir 🤍🤍

[@阿免-e8n]

thank you so much for this!

[@hatrung8796]

Thank you so much for helping us out. I was able to understand a lotta things once again with your help.

[@johnelegesse3288]

THANK YOU