“do your wrists hurt yet?”😂😭
a friend earlier in the week had told me “you can still tell us what’s wrong and we’ll still love you the same”. resharing that here cuz I needed to hear that bad, and maybe someone out there needs to hear it too.
if yall held space for me, especially this past week, thank you 🙇🏻♀️ i don’t take it lightly.
ik what i gotta do. stick with me yall <3
thank you @kybot808 , @_bradq808 for having me <3 a dub is sweet but sharing it with friends made it all the sweeter.
thank you @_culturenow for the space <3
#freestyle #dance #erc #gethitgetupera
snippet of my prelims for the 3v3! 🙂↕️
@cjrey17 : “you work this weekend”
Me: “…no 👀”
CJ: “we need a third”
Me: “bet”
bought my flight the day before the battle at 5am when I had JUST gotten home from work. when the crew needs u and u can make it, u show up 🤷🏻♀️
@cjrey17@intricacito thank you for tapping me in to be on the team yall #ERC
thank you @daniel.stance for capturing my prelims!
shout out to @cypherside for throwing a dope event!!!
#ilovedance #freestyle #dance #dancebattle #fyp #trending #waacking #whaacking
so come pick up your clothes, i have them foldeddddd 😔✊🏼
- w/ the crewmates! @cjrey17
#shapes #lines #kehlani #dance freestyle
@kehlani
jeans: @drmersclub
STEM girly thru and thru the way i stay in the lab (…lmao lemme see myself out)
when i lab, its less about coming up with sets to remember and more about building trust in my body and my creativity. i’ll literally pause my videos frame by frame and pick something to expand on - kinda like how u would rearrange ur action figures around limb by limb. asking urself “what could the vision look like if i moved this arm here? or placed it here? or level changed as i traced? or added a texture here to emphasize the music in that way? or grabbed my foot without help from the other hand?” ♾️ so much to play with and u could do cool stuff but when it comes to application - the music comes first!
#freestyle #flexible #waacking #dance #thread
caught a W yesterday! coming right after nursing clinical, i just wanted to have a silly goofy time. posting this now before i talk myself out of it. i had fun!
literally walked out of the bathroom after throwing up so all i was repeating in my head was “lock in lock in lock in” 😭 (i gotta stop doing that lmao) i was v nauseous and tired so couldn’t say hi to folks or converse but i’m very grateful for being able to share space
thank you to the judges @najthemirage@justjensineman@mactrayy and dj @tuhreesee ! thank u to @uwhhsa for throwing this event <3
shout out to @minh.dos for making finals and putting in the work, it shows!
**this dance style comes from queer Black American culture during the 1970s in LA
#waacking #whacking #freestyle #dance #seattle
wondering what ur doing 2nite and 4eva 💕
in spirit of @waacklanta LOVE, i wanted to emulate the feelings of having a crush in my showcase 🙇🏻♀️
this weekend was truly so full of love and fun. needed this typa energy bad. @venus.vinnycakes and his team has created such an incredible environment that has community at the core of it. couldn’t be more grateful to be apart of this weekend. from the clear communication, lovely vibes, witnessing everyone express, all the dancing, meeting new people, being so taken care of by the team, amazing djs, to everything in between, THANK YOU.
gratitude to @demoncar0007 for your knowledge and wisdom, it was an honor to be witnessed by you!
#waacking #dance #dancer #freestyle
ask me what i’m doing, imma tell u im doing what it takes 🙂↕️
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sharing 4 those who can relate
these past few months have been a lesson in grief and grace
truthfully, one of the things that brings me the most solace in life is being able to act out an idea i have for dance. i’ve been in some form of school and work my entire dance journey so im no stranger to balancing these things. but this quarter of nursing school has burnt me tf out, which is a lot for my to admit in of itself (and it only gets worse next quarter 🫠). the 10 hr school days, hw, 12 hr work days, gym and other training, traveling, and trying to make time for dance - im so grateful and my life is so full, i wouldn’t change it for the world. just been contending with and grieving not having as much time or energy like i used to for dance.
transparently, allowing myself to show up while accepting that im not going to be showing up optimally has been so hard. the more that i try to reason w myself to take a step back and that taking a step back is progress too, the more it felt like my ego wanted to hold on and the louder my inner thoughts questioned my worthiness in these spaces. got to a point where i was forcing myself to perform a certain way which has just made dance not fun for me. but it’s like - what does optimal even mean? optimal by whose standards? dancing for who? holding on to what? worthiness for what? what’s the point if i’m not enjoying myself?
being reassured “u been doing a lot” and yet intrinsically constantly never feeling like im doing enough is so exhausting. in this chapter of life, i don’t want to have my identity and perceived self worth revolve around my capacity for how much i can handle, or how much i can push myself even if things don’t align, anymore.
allat being said, im gonna keep showing up :) because dance makes me happy and creating makes me happy. and im a big believer that you can be everything and do everything you want in this life. but now, im learning to make peace with my relationship to dance and show up in a way that’s conducive to the season of life im in.
u cant be mad at the trees for losing its leaves in the winter
No sleep. 1 year in the making. This is what happened.
We both landed the night before and still made this shoot happen. So glad I finally got to have her in my studio.
Eevy’s style is different—waacking, tutting, full expression with insane control and flexibility.
Capturing that isn’t just about lighting or angles…
it’s about understanding the person in front of you.
That’s where the real image comes from.
Huge shout out to @eevy_ for coming through!
Some shoots take time to come together.
This one took over a year.
Eevy finally stepped into my studio with a badass look and the kind of presence only a unique artist brings to camera.
Super grateful we finally got to create this.
