Put on the music, and as in Step 2, stay detached while dancing in ‘the space’. Effort = the distance between you and masteryĭecide in advance what you are going to dance. If you lose ‘the space’, stop the music, pause, find ‘the space’, and start again.ģ. Observe your body and physical sensations. This could take weeks or months or years, but that’s ok, it’s a journey, not a race. And one step must be achieved before the next. Werner proposes a four-step method to achieve effortless mastery. If I keep learning off lots of dances without taking as long a time as I need to address my arms, I will still have flappy arms years later.
For me, one of the things I’m working on now is having purposeful (not flappy) arms. Then it will be easier to learn more material in the future. If you actually take the time to achieve mastery you will stop making the same mistake. Why does this make sense? You’ll make the same mistakes over and over again if you learn lots of things superficially. He says that it’s better to learn less material really well than more material superficially.
He suggests practising only one thing at a time until it’s mastered. You will learn about Werner’s journey and how fear affects listening to and playing music, as well as practical steps to overcome this. If you are interested in this subject, I highly recommend reading the whole book. You will be able to build your personal dance practice, and start your journey towards ‘effortless mastery’ in dance. In this blog post, you will learn practical strategies from Warner’s book. But have you ever been afraid of making a wrong move? Or felt your body wracked by tension? Or felt ‘stuck’, making the same mistakes over and over again while dancing? Strategies from Werner’s book can be used to overcome these (and other) issues in dance. So what can a book about music teach us about dance? I first heard the book referred to by Alia Thabit in relation to belly dance. It’s about overcoming dysfunctional fear-based practising and playing to achieve effortless mastery. Effortless Mastery is a book written by Kenny Werner, an American jazz pianist and educator.
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