Instead of wasting your time on the internet with cat videos and quizzes, put your time in front of your laptop to good use and get inspired!
If you’re an up and coming dance maker of any kind, you can find a plethora of clips and videos online to inject some new ideas into your routines, or simply to imitate in your tracky dacks in the lounge room. As part of our series with AustralianSuper, helping you kickstart your creative career, independent dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi today shares her favorite dance clips of all time, to start you off down an inspirational YouTube rabbit hole!
Kola Kola
In terms of Bollywood film clips, I know this probably doesn’t rank highly, but this is one of my favorite clips of all time.
It’s perfectly daggy but also humanly precise at the same time and the angles are so, so excellent. Don’t just focus on the latest dance videos on the net, hunting down old gems like these are often great for surprise inspiration!
Cost Of Living
Lloyd Newsom is a living movement legend. He refers to his work as physical theater, which makes sense. His company DV8 are taking a break after 30 years and over 55 national and international awards, 18 stage productions and 4 full-length dance films.
DV8 creates work that is rich with the lived experience. “Cost of Living” remains one of my favorite works to date. It’s a decade old but still a classic.
Blue Yellow
Sylvie Guillem was one of the worlds greatest ballerinas, dancing with Paris Opera Ballet, choreographing for the Royal Ballet and after that Sadler and Wells (which may mean absolutely squat to you but to put it in simpler terms, she was one of the worlds most lit ballerinas).
Here she is not exactly doing ballet but still seriously flexing in on my favorite pieces performed by her and choreographed by Jonathan Burrows.
Ciara – Ride ft. Ludacris
I once ripped a pair of pants trying to learn this and it felt really satisfying. The floor work in this knocks me and my inside thighs out – I love it dearly. If you looking for more contemporary (kinda!) inspiration, look no more! All hail Ciara!
Floating Points
The location and precision of this is so very pretty. Plus I love floating points <3
Amrita Hepi is a Sydney based dance maker. Find out more about her and her work here and catch her at NextWave festival this month.
If you’re just starting out in your career, a few right moves early on can help set you up for life. For more stories in our AustralianSuper KickStart series head here, or go to AustralianSuper.
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