Hot Music Finds...
I have finally reached a place in my Nia practice where I feel excited and confident about choreographing my own music. In large part this is due to both my Zumba teaching (where I have to choreograph my own warmups and cooldowns) and my experience with Nia Trainer Kelle Rae Oien while she was here in Brazil (her gift for matching music to movement is extraordinary!).
I have already played with swapping Nia songs and Zumba songs, with varied results. I am now playing with choreographing my own music, which is a BLAST! So far, I have mostly focused on iTunes shopping sprees, and have been fascinated by all the sources of new music that I have discovered, like
Grae New York Blog
And
SoundCloud
And of course, movies and TV shows, like the soundtrack from "Breaking Dawn," the Twilight movie and the soundtrack from "How to Make it In America."
So, anyway here's a couple of the songs I am playing with right now...
Levels by Avicii - goes well I think to adapted choreo from "City of Lights" from Nia R1
"Joy - LoveJoy Vocal Mix" by Staxx - been playing with putting this to "Summertime" choreo from the Nia Butterfly routine
I have already played with swapping Nia songs and Zumba songs, with varied results. I am now playing with choreographing my own music, which is a BLAST! So far, I have mostly focused on iTunes shopping sprees, and have been fascinated by all the sources of new music that I have discovered, like
Grae New York Blog
And
SoundCloud
And of course, movies and TV shows, like the soundtrack from "Breaking Dawn," the Twilight movie and the soundtrack from "How to Make it In America."
So, anyway here's a couple of the songs I am playing with right now...
Levels by Avicii - goes well I think to adapted choreo from "City of Lights" from Nia R1
"Joy - LoveJoy Vocal Mix" by Staxx - been playing with putting this to "Summertime" choreo from the Nia Butterfly routine
Posted by Stephanie at Saturday, February 11, 2012 8:48 AM 
Categories: Music, Nia Technique
Tags: music Nia Sound Cloud
Categories: Music, Nia Technique
Tags: music Nia Sound Cloud
Good for you!!! Isn't it great to sub out stuff for some of the funky stuff that just doesn't flow with the theme of a Nia routine? I can't remember if I told you I completely choreo'd my own routine for last fall. Christened it "Soundtrack" as all music was from movies: Water for Elephants, Fried Green Tomatoes; Footloose; Flashdance; ET; to mention a few. It was hard work but fun and it went over great!! Continue to play, as I'm sure you have "all the right stuff"! (: love, Melanie
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Hey Sugar,
We need to have a phone date. The 52 Moves training is the missing link to what you are desiring. Blew me away and I was prepared to be totally resistant. Nope, it was a blast. xxxooo
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