Dance, "How to...."


 Dance, "How to..."

This page is a compilation of helpful information about dancing in SL.

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Dance Basics
  1. Learning to Dance in SL
  2. Dance Equipment Explained
  3. Managing Your Dances
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Individual Dancing
  1. How to Do Freestyle Choreography
  2. How to Do Sequenced Choreography
  3. How to Make Sequences from the Database
  4. Choreography Examples - Choreography Show IDiddy Dance Gold
  5. Song Choreography
  6. Using the Firestorm Built-in AO
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Group Dancing
  1. Group Dancing - Helpful Tools and Tips
  2. How to Reduce Lag
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Couples Dancing
  1. Couples Dancing - Overview
  2. Opening a Couples Dance Ball
  3. Couples Dancing - Waiting Between Songs
  4. Couples Dancing - All About Pose Balls
  5. Making Couples Dances
  6. Buying a Sim Dance SystemSim Dance Systems - Review of Henmations Club Control V1
  7. Choreography Examples - MaHalChoreogrqphy Show II
  8. Starting/Finishing Poses for Couples
  9. The Challenge of Couples Dance Choreography
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Show Dancing
  1. How to Form a Dance Group
  2. Show Tips
  3. Using the XPOSE
  4. Inside an SL Dance Show
  5. Show Choreography - Example 1Example 2
  6. DanceMaster DemoDanceMaster and Lag
  7. Avatar Server DemandAvatar Script Level Control on One SimDance Lag and Pathfinding
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Pole, Chair, Lap Dancing
  1. Pole Dancing Fun
  2. Dancing with Dance Chairs
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Dance Festival Management
  1. Running a Major Festival
  2. Hosting a Dance Event on a Homestead
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Helpful Tips for Dancing
  1. DANCES
    1.a. Dance Priorities

    1.b. SL (Linden) Internal Animations
    1.c. Dance Ball Dances
    1.d. Finding Your First Dances
    1.e. Free or Low-Cost Dances
    1.f. Making Dances
    1.g. Copy or Transfer Dances
    1.h. Using Two HUDs at One Time
    1.i. Skate Dancing
    1.j. Finding Dances in Stores
    1.k. Musical Instruments and Dancing
    1.l. A Simple, Sexy, Modifying Animation
    1.m. Slow Motion Animations
    1.n. Hidden Animations
    1.o. How to Recognize Illegal Dances
    1.p. Using Looped or Non-Looped Dances in Sequences
    1.q. Switching Dances Off the Centerpoint
    1.r. Mirror Dancing
    1.s. Finding Dance Times
    1.t. Shadow Dancing
    1.u. Using Static Poses in a Dance Sequences
    1.v. Dances for Tinies
    1.w. Modifyling Anims in a HUD
    1.v. Using Looped or non-Looped Dances in Sequences
      
  2. HUDDLES
    2.a. Making a Notecard for Huddles
    2.b. Navigating in Your Huddles HUD
    2.c. Using /99n in Your Huddles
    2.d. Rezzing Items With the Huddles HUD
    2.e. Planning for Huddles Disasters
    2.f. Spaces in Huddles Notecards
    2.g. Repeating a Dance in Huddles
     
  3. BARRE
    3.a. Converting to the Barre from the Huddles 123 and 4
    3.b. Commas in the Barre HUD
    3.c. Making Dance Sequences with the Barre HUD
    3.d. The Limits of Dance HUD Capacity
     
  4. INTAN 
    4.a. Maximizing Your INTAN
    4.b. Sync Dancing with Your INTAN
    4.c. Using Multiple INTANs
     
  5. DANCE TOOLS
    5.a. Rezzer
    5.b. Anypose - Facial Expressions
    5.c. Dancing With Props
    5.d. Using Your HUD as a Dance Machine
    5.e. Conjoiner - Conjoined Dancing
    5.f. Dance Us Around - Move couples pose balls
    5.g. Dancing Bots
    5.h. Dance Positioners - 8-Dancer2-Dancer2-Dancer for Couples
    5.i. Comparative Analysis of Dance HUDs
    5.j. The Piecemaker - Starting a dance in the middle
    5.k. Dancing with Vehicles
    5.l. Avatar Sizes for Dancing and Shows
    5.m. Spot-On Movement and Position Controller
     
  6. THINGS YOU SHOULD DO
    6.a. 
    How to Back up Your HUD
    6.b. Built-in AO
     
  7. ADVANCED DANCING
    7 :-) Dancers Become Geeks
    7.a. Advanced Dancing 01 - Mily Sandalwood
    7.b. Advanced Dancing 02 - Diddy Hyun
    7.c. Advanced Dancing 03 - Caryl Meredith
    7.d. Advanced Dancing 04 - Nottoo Wise
    7.e. Advanced Dancing 05 - Kat Feldragonne
    7.f. Advanced Dancing 06 - Psyche Lunasea
    7.g. Advanced Dancing 07 - Inarra Saarinen



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2/ Dance Categories-Styles

The DANCE QUEENS Dance Database allows you to search for dance information and sort the Categories and Styles. To help you quickly find dances and animations that fit particular Styles below are lists. You can do this with the Dance Database, but this gives you a quick check.

*PS, The Dance Categories are not updated (yet), but still useful!
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Type: Animation
Category: Stands
Styles:
Category: Sits
Styles:
A - Z

Category: Ground Sits
Styles:
A - Z


Category: Lies
Styles:
A - Z

Category: Flies

Styles:
A - Z

Category: Jumps
Styles:
A - Z

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Type: Couples

Category: All

Styles:
All
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Type: Dances

Category: Ballroom
Styles:
Category: Celebrity
Styles:
Category: Freestyle
Styles:
Category: HipHop
Styles:
Category: Historical
Styles:
  • Baroque Dance
  • English Country Dance
  • Masque
  • Medievil Dance
  • Regency Dance
  • Renaissance Dance
  • Vintage Dance
Category: House
Styles:
Category: Jazz-AA
Styles:
Category: Latin
Styles:
Category: Liturgical
Styles:
  • Liturgical
Category: Novelty-Fad
Styles:
Category: Performance
Styles:
Category: Punk
Styles:
Category: Rave-Trance
Styles:
Category: SL Unique
Styles:
Category: Swing
Styles:
Category: Traditional
Styles:
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Type: Poses

Category: All
Styles: All
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Hover AnimationsOn the Floor Dances



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