Dance, "How to..."
This page is a compilation of helpful information about dancing in SL.
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Dance Basics
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Individual Dancing
- How to Do Freestyle Choreography
- How to Do Sequenced Choreography
- How to Make Sequences from the Database
- Choreography Examples - Choreography Show I, Diddy Dance Gold
- Song Choreography
- Using the Firestorm Built-in AO
Group Dancing
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Couples Dancing
- Couples Dancing - Overview
- Opening a Couples Dance Ball
- Couples Dancing - Waiting Between Songs
- Couples Dancing - All About Pose Balls
- Making Couples Dances
- Buying a Sim Dance System, Sim Dance Systems - Review of Henmations Club Control V1
- Choreography Examples - MaHal, Choreogrqphy Show II
- Starting/Finishing Poses for Couples
- The Challenge of Couples Dance Choreography
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Show Dancing
- How to Form a Dance Group
- Show Tips
- Using the XPOSE
- Inside an SL Dance Show
- Show Choreography - Example 1, Example 2
- DanceMaster Demo, DanceMaster and Lag
- Avatar Server Demand, Avatar Script Level Control on One Sim, Dance Lag and Pathfinding
Pole, Chair, Lap Dancing
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Dance Festival Management
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Helpful Tips for Dancing
- 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
- 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
- BARRE
3.a. Converting to the Barre from the Huddles 1, 2, 3 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
- INTAN
4.a. Maximizing Your INTAN
4.b. Sync Dancing with Your INTAN
4.c. Using Multiple INTANs
- 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-Dancer, 2-Dancer, 2-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
- THINGS YOU SHOULD DO
6.a. How to Back up Your HUD
6.b. Built-in AO
- 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!
====================*PS, The Dance Categories are not updated (yet), but still useful!
Type: Animation
Category: Stands
Styles:
Category: Sits
Styles:
A - Z
Category: Ground Sits
Styles:
A - Z
Category: Lies
Styles:
A - ZStyles:
Category: Flies
Styles:
A - ZCategory: Jumps
Styles:
A - Z
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Type: Couples
Category: All
Styles:
All
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Type: Dances
Category: Ballroom
Styles:
- Foxtrot
- Quickstep
- Viennese Waltz
- Waltz
Category: Celebrity
Styles:
- Beyonce
- Britney Spears
- Christina Aguilera
- Jamiroquai
- John Travolta
- Lady Gaga
- Madcon
- Michael Jackson
- Pete Townshend
- Ricky Martin
- Rihanna
- Rolling Stones
Styles:
Category: HipHop
Styles:- Bounce
- Breaking
- Crip Walk (C-Walk)
- Electric Boogaloo
- Floating
- Jerkin'
- Jookin'
- Krumping
- Litefeet
- Popping
- Robot/Locking
- Snap Dance
- Street Jazz
- Strobing
- Turfing
Category: Historical
Styles:- Baroque Dance
- English Country Dance
- Masque
- Medievil Dance
- Regency Dance
- Renaissance Dance
- Vintage Dance
Category: House
Styles:
Category: Jazz-AA
Styles:- Bernie Dance
- Black Bottom
- Boogie-woogie
- Cabbage Patch
- Cakewalk
- Calypso Zumba
- Chicago Stepping
- Moonwalk
- Salsaton Dance
- Soca Dance
- Tap Dance
- Texas Tommy
Category: Latin
Styles:- Bachata
- Bolero
- Capoeira
- Carioca
- Cha-Cha
- Conga
- Cumbia
- Lambada
- Limbo
- Macarena
- Mambo
- Meneaito
- Merengue
- Reggaeton
- Rumba
- Salsa
- Samba
- Tango
Category: Liturgical
Styles:- Liturgical
Category: Novelty-Fad
Styles:- Batusi
- Bomba
- Bump
- Skate Dancing
- Carlton
- Chicken Dance
- Conga-Bunny
- Crank
- Cupid Shuffle
- Disco
- Dutty Wine
- Electric Slide
- Line Dance
- Monkey
- Peanut Butter
- Pony
- Roger Rabbit
- Running Man
- Time Warp
- Twist
- YMCA
Category: Performance
Styles:
- Acrobatic Dance
- Ballet
- Belly
- Bollywood
- Burlesque-CanCan
- Chair-Lap
- Cheerleader
- Concert Dance
- Contemporary
- Flamenco
- Greek Classical
- Modern Dance
- Pole
- Rockettes
Category: Punk
Styles:
Category: Rave-Trance
Styles:- Candy Walk
- Jumpstyle
- Kandi Stomping
- Melbourse Shuffle
- Rebolation
- X-Outing
Category: SL Unique
Styles:
Category: Swing
Styles:- Balboa
- Blues Dance
- Carolina Shag
- Charleston
- Collegiate Shag
- Deneme
- East Coast Swing
- Hand Jive
- Jitterbug
- Jitting
- Jive
- Leroc
- Lindy Hop
- Modern Jive
- Rock and Roll
- West Coast Swing
Category: Traditional
Styles:- Chinese
- Clog
- Geisha
- Greek-Zorba
- Hula
- Indian
- Irish
- Kung Fu
- Portugal
- Romani
- Russian
- Scottish
- Sword Dance
- Turkish
- Zydeco
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Type: Poses
Category: All
Styles: All
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