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Rebound
Advanced Level
Full mastery — nuance, personal expression, and artistry
The elastic bounce-back that follows a movement's endpoint — using the body's stored energy to flow naturally into the next action.
Tips
- •Think of your body as a rubber band — every stretch has a natural return. Work with that, not against it
- •Practice with a tennis ball: throw it against a wall and catch the rebound. Now imagine your body is the ball and the movement endpoint is the wall
- •Watch advanced dancers in slow motion — they never fully stop between movements. That continuous quality IS rebound
Common mistakes
- •Killing the rebound by stopping each movement dead — this creates robotic, disconnected dancing
- •Over-amplifying the rebound into uncontrolled bouncing — rebound should be proportional to the initiating movement
- •Ignoring the rebound in leading — a good lead uses the follower's natural rebound to flow into the next movement
- •Confusing rebound with aimless wobbling — rebound has direction and purpose
Practice drill
Standing in place: chest pop forward, let the rebound pull your chest back, immediately let that back-rebound push your chest forward into the next pop. Create a bouncing rhythm. Start with 2-count bounces, speed up to 1-count, then to half-count. The pops should feel increasingly effortless as you let the rebound do more work. Then apply the same principle to hip pops, side to side. Three minutes.