Something I wanted to bring to life through my dance were life experiences. I find it hard to do because you have to translate through movement what you felt at a point in time. I see myself as an artist because I am going through a creative process every time I get down. The music plays a major role in the creative process because a lot of the times it's dictating certain aspects of my dance. For example, if I have a boom bap I might want to hit my moves harder and move faster, and on the opposite side on a faster song I might move slower and focus more on showing more character (just an example).

@Richie 'Abstrak' Soto ✌🏼

I've always had goals, some vague some clear. Breaking being a dance that encourages creativity and skill, I always tried to better myself and my arsenal of moves. In the beginning my goals were to learn as many moves as possible, and become better than everyone else. But the main goal was to make progress, and this came through training. I understood that training/practice is a big part of breaking, and to better myself I have to keep of training. "If I'll show up at practice, it's impossible that at one point I wont become better." Movement wise or not movement wise, we need to have goals. The goals will tell us which direction to push towards. Sometimes might be airflare, sometimes might be simple chair freeze combinations. Sometimes is improving your flow and style for the next 6 months, or work on traveling footworkfor 30 min. Sometimes you might write it down, or sometimes you just hold it in your head. It's all good as long as you know which way you want to go. The opposite side of this is having goals and not fighting to get them. This happened too. I set something up and then slowly fall off from it. The think about this part is that it creates a feeling of disappointment and fail. In over 20 years of breaking I've went through many phases, but I always tried to show up at practice, with or without goals, because in breaking, training is necessary, and even though some may say that you don't have to go crazy with training, I say that one main part of hip hop was always Skill. And skill is built through trial and error, and that's what training/practice sessions are.

I would start with the historical part of the dance and culture.

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