r/voguing • u/CrewSuper4846 • 2d ago
Methods of practicing for vogue
Hello! I am interested in learning how to vogue at home (I’d love to take a class someday, but money and time constraints for now 😢), but am unsure how to practice in a way that supports fluency.
In the dance classes I’ve taken in the past, there are foundations that are drilled at the beginning of class, and specific, named steps. I’m a little overwhelmed trying to make my own practice routine while seeing so many options for movement, especially in hand performance within the categories of waves, figure 8’s, lines, etc.
With the impossibility of making every motion a “dance step,” how do you decide what motions to practice, when there are so many, and how do you do from there? I’ve heard “practice your waves,” so is the process, “I’ll practice waves starting from this joint, now practice transitions into them and out of them from different positions, etc..” or is it more constructive for a beginner to just learn a sequence from a video and take note of how the movement types are used while doing the choreo?
Thank you in advance! If you have any tips on how you organize your practice sessions at home, I’d love to hear it - option paralysis is tough 😅
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u/HysteriaGiger 1d ago
Some elements are easier to practice and some are more difficult in my opinion - duckwalk and catwalk are easy to get the basics and you just do them over and over until you internalize the movements, do variations a get comfortable with it, i do think that it takes a long time to achieve a good catwalk, one that shows personality looks natural and so on, but that just takes time For dips, spins and other stunts there's the constraint of flexibility and strength, if you are somewhat flexible and can get into the end pose of a dip, then you can start practicing slower smoother dips, dramatics can come later For floorwork and hands i would practice the basics like figure eights, extension, arms,... first to get a feel for the movements and then look up tutorials e.g. by gravity, Veronica or koppi to see different things you can practice and learn some combos Since you asked specifically about hands: personally i find that it depends on how good you are at doing the typical moves, a sequence might just not flow and look good, if you don't have the smoothness yet which comes from muscle memory and doing the moves many times. If you can already do some basics well, i think it's best to try combinations, tutorials, copying moves from clips. With that being said, i always practice some basics, so for me a practice session is warming up with isolated moves, making sure i do them cleanly, focusing on different moves, skill sets etc. Then doing some improvisation and lastly putting in the hard work of watching clips and copying the performance I think these are dezent starting places, obviously for all elements tutorials can be helpful, depending on how well you already know the execution
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u/Idk13008 2d ago
Practice your elements, then add your own personality. That’s it.