Patricia - Dance tutor - New York
Patricia - Dance tutor - New York

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Patricia

  • Rate RM199
  • Response 9h
  • Students

    Number of students accompanied by Patricia since their arrival at Superprof

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    Number of students accompanied by Patricia since their arrival at Superprof

Patricia - Dance tutor - New York
  • 5 (1 review)

RM199/h

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  • Dance
  • Hip Hop Dance

Started off dancing Ballroom and now I dance a mixture of hip-hop and contemporary style. Now own my own business and teach absolute beginners (those who want to challenge themselves and those who do)

  • Dance
  • Hip Hop Dance

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About Patricia

There is this idea that some people are born with rhythm and born knowing how to dance, and some aren’t.

There is also the misconception that memorizing choreography is learning how to dance. Patricia believes that dance is a form of expression that can help people from all backgrounds not only through exercise but also to find their own style in motion.

As a kid, Patricia always had a passion for dance but her father who raised both her brother and her alone couldn’t afford to pay for dance lessons. She did not know where or how to begin, so she watched and imitated her brother pop locking, waving, and (as she would say) “his attempts to break dance” every chance she had. Patricia was around 10 years old when she saw her brother practicing in their living room where there was a mirror that covered up an entire wall. Her brother would repeatedly play the song while practicing his dance which amazed Patricia with how cool and unnatural his moves were.



It wasn’t until 5th grade at P.S. 11 that Patricia had a chance to take a real dance class, a ballroom dance class. Even though it wasn’t Hip Hop, she wouldn’t have cared if it was a class on the “hokey pokey”, as long as it was still dancing. After taking the class and learning the ballroom dance techniques, She was chosen to compete in a swing dance competition and won her first championship. Walking in with a crowd of about 10 different schools competing for the same thing was a bit intimidating but “the energy in the gym (where the competition was located) was simply mesmerizing” - P. Als.



When Patricia went off to middle school, her desire to dance was still there. Her passion for hip-hop, pop lock, and freestyle dance were still in her, even though she was terrible at it (at the time). Around that time YouTube came about, so she started watching great dancers pop locking, breakdancing, and bone-breaking, to any song. Her other big inspiration was Michael Jackson, especially his Billie Jean performance, you know the one where he introduce the moonwalk for the first time and on top of that danced alone on stage without any background dancers. Although my brother made fun of me when he caught me trying to do the wave and pop, she kept practicing and practicing. She watched herself improve little by little until her wave and pop were on point.

Looking back on my story She realized she was never good at dancing until she started practicing and watching me in the mirror.

“Anyone can dance, it’s all about looking deep inside yourself and putting in the time to find your own style” - P.Als.

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About the lesson

  • All levels
  • English

All languages in which the lesson is available :

English

The goal I work toward with clients is being able to freestyle dance - in other words; moving to almost any song that comes on at a wedding or party. So forget all those dancers who have taken classes for years and focus on you:

The person who wants to learn how to freestyle dance and of course look good doing it!

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Rates

Rate

  • RM199

Pack rates

  • 5h: RM994
  • 10h: RM1989

online

  • RM199/h

Travel

  • + RM20

Details

Online lessons are $50 an hour and $75 for an hour and a half.

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