• Street dance battles have become an important aspect of street dance culture, requiring technical skills, creativity, and showmanship to succeed.
• Dance battle tactics are used to outperform opponents and gain an advantage in a battle. They can intimidate, distract, or showcase skills and creativity.
• There are three main categories of dance battle tactics: confrontational, dominant, and storytelling.
• Confrontational battle tactics are more geared toward mental strategies, involving intimidating opponents up close, and are effective in styles like krump, breaking, and hip hop.
• Dominant battle tactics involve showcasing dominance and excellence through execution of techniques and skills, either up close or from a distance. It can work for any style of street dance but is most effective in styles like locking, waacking, popping, and house that require a high level of technical skill and precision.
• The technical battle tactic is all about showcasing excellence and cleanliness of technique in movement, including the quality of movement and tricks such as hat tricks, shoe tricks, flips, splits, and other athletic physical abilities.
• The goal of musicality battle tactics is to create a visual representation of the music and impress the audience and opponent with the dancer's rhythm and timing.
• Mimicry battle tactics are about imitating the opponent's moves and adding one's own style and flavor to them, showcasing adaptability and creativity while putting a personal spin on the opponent's moves.

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• LMA is a method of observing, describing, and interpreting human movement.
• Developed by Rudolf Laban, a Hungarian movement theorist and practitioner.
• LMA categorizes movement into different components: Body, Effort, Shape, and Space.
• Street dancers can use LMA to develop a deeper understanding of their movement vocabulary and how it can be used to convey different emotions, characters, and stories.
• LMA can help street dancers become more creative in their freestyle and battle training through storytelling exercises.
• The Body component of LMA focuses on the physicality of movement, including body parts, body alignment, and body actions.
• The Effort component of LMA focuses on the qualities of movement, such as force, time, space, and flow.
• The Shape component of LMA focuses on the form and structure of movement, including body shape, line, and direction.
• The Space component of LMA focuses on the use of space in movement, including level, direction, and pathway.
• Street dancers can use LMA to analyze their movement, generate movement material, refine their performance, and give feedback to others.
• Exercises and techniques to incorporate LMA into freestyle dance practice include Body-focused Warm-up, Effort Exploration, Shape Play, Space Journey, and Storytelling Exercises.

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• The Method acting technique is an acting approach that emphasizes the actor's immersion in the character's emotions and experiences to create a more authentic and believable performance.
• As a freestyle dancer, tapping into your emotions and experiences can bring a deeper level of authenticity to your performances and create a more powerful connection with your audience.
• Key principles of the Method acting technique that can be applied to freestyle dance include emotional preparation, sensory work, improvisation, sense memory, and object work.
• Exercises and techniques to incorporate these principles into your freestyle dance practice include emotion-focused warm-up, character work, sense memory, emotional recall, script analysis, and partner work.

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