Spending Sunday with my lady! Finally got our girlfriend/boyfriend rings! Movie, coffee & cake. Almost 3 years and still feels like we had just met. :) #goodtimes #iloveyou (Taken with instagram)
Thank you @iamnatho go this! First time working with a local artiste! Hope it’s not the last! :) (Taken with instagram)
finally got them @whatmovesu stickers on my MacBook! Taking inspiration with me wherever I go. #mL (Taken with instagram)
Well hello guys! been awhile since I been on tumblr but only because I was busy with life! I hope if you’re reading this, your life has been moving beautifully for you as well. Been doing more admin work than dancing lately, aftermath of SDD and also taking over new responsibilities.
Well, creatively I haven been active lately so I’m just gonna end this off with the most recent clip on my youtube. enjoy! and also, look at my bros! they crazy with it!
www.youtube.com/ronniechengg SUBSCRIBE! hahaha.
:)
ron
Wise words. :)
A respected leader in Corporate America once expressed,
I’m not above washing dishes. I don’t believe that any job is too small because these things NEED to happen for the team. I used to pick up phone lines… I held the title of administrative assistant once… I’m not above this, because these…
My grandma’s birthday! Saw my nieces and nephews. Damn Im an uncle already? Also a picture with the important women in my life. :) (Taken with instagram)
TATSUO! He is an amazing house dancer! Now he is just something else! The way he dance is really gentlemanly. Such a good character! Happy to be around him! :) (Taken with instagram)
Loose joint! He is a really good person and has a good energy around him! Dropped a lot of knowledge about hip hop dancing to us! : (Taken with instagram)
YOSHIE! Took a class from her last week, she is such a magnificent dancer! Soul dancing heals I swear! And one of my favorite female dancers. :) (Taken with instagram)
Hand burger! Super nice place to have dinner! Good food! Bomb nutella shake and the works burger. Yeahhhhh! (Taken with instagram)
Lunch! I love Japanese food. :) (Taken with instagram)
feeling another post like one of those days. You know when I was a kid, my whole character was entirely different. I wanted to be a policeman, I wanted my future to have lots of guns & uniform in it. I wanted to be rich and money I could spend on whatever I wanted. I love logical think, I don’t like to bend the rules. Love martial arts and secretly wanted to be a champion martial artist like in the comic books.
As I was growing up, I start to forget about the stuff I used to like. During puberty I dreamt of being an NBA player. HAHAHA! but seriously I loved basketball but I was never good at it. So when I was done with that, I was pretty much open minded to almost anything. That’s where my world begins to change.
So i started dancing at 18, I’m turning 24 this year. This is my 6th year of dancing, I so happy to say that I’m officially a full time dancer. I teach & share dance for a living. Yes, I went from wanting guns to this. What caused the change? if you asked me that, I could never give you an answer to that. I just got sucked into it the day I started, It went from taking dance classes as part of a curriculum in school, to dancing in a school club, to joining competitions, to representing singapore, to flying out to improve on dance and to finally be a dancer. talk about humble beginnings yea? But I would say my journey barely started, for all I’d say, I would think that now is where it gets fun.
I teach 4 classes a week, regularly and mostly beginners. So for me it’s a challenge because I’m not a seasoned teacher yet. Yet beginners are the freshest dancers and I want to be delicate with them. When I teach I have the mindset of adding on good things to what they already have, NOT DICTATING THEIR DANCE LIVES. The last thing I want is to have a bunch of my students dancing like me. Because I strongly believe that everyone should dance like themselves. At the same time I wanna make sure that I stay in contact with my regular self by choreographing to things that I like, music that intrigues me. finding a good balance of this is always key!
As a young dancer, too many a times I want to look or move like someone I look up to. In terms of dressing, style, choreography all that kind of stuff. Everyone around me seems to do that too. It felt good to look or pretend to be like that someone you look up to so much. Always using music they choreographed, I believe most dancers go through this stage yes? But I’m sad to say it took me a good 5 YEARS to realize how much have I been missing out on dance. By trying to someone I look up to and only doing that, I’m technically pushing every other aspect of dance away. By that I mean all other styles of dance. Which dawned on me when I visited LA and started to appreciate dancers for what’s their worth, not their fame.
Dance is just too vast and wide to be following only one way of it. Honestly when I choreograph last time, a small thought in my head would be “how would “insert favorite choreographer name” choreograph to this?” Right now I would think that “Hmm, How would I wanna do it?”. In a way, I’m actually afraid to look like someone else now! it’s crazy but I learn this the hard way.
Attitude is also key for me. I feel that some people are genuinely humble, and striving for art. which I respect a lot. Yet some just play the game of fame. You know I’m not ashamed to say but sometimes I have to “play along”. If you get what I mean, I don’t like that shit but it happens. Its life, so being a regular guy that’s been through national service, I’ve mastered the skill of just sucking it up and rolling with the punches. After knowing things better in Singapore and looking at things from my point of view, sad to say I lost a lot of respect for people that I thought I looked up to. Well, not saying that trying to get yourself out there is wrong but all I gotta say is, it doesn’t matter how famous you are, if you’re a good person and you got the skills, all you need is faith. If you feel pricked about this paragraph then yea I might just be talking about you fool! hahahaha! jk.
either way, I guess what I’m trying to say is love what you do for what it is. That’s the only way to enjoy and understand it to the fullest of your potential. Don’t feed to much into praises and to delve to deep into criticisms. Everyone has their view, do you and let the other worry about how good it is. If it’s truly good for yourself, then it’s good enough. :)
Cookies from my course students! Thank you nana and minami! :D (Taken with instagram)
My gift for @zoengkaili! A heart shaped dollar bill ring. That bill came from my first ever overseas workshop! Dedicating my dance to her. #valentines (Taken with instagram)
I just watched a couple of my old dance videos and compared to some of the new ones. Cringed and smiled through them. I won’t say I have the prettiest journey ever but I would definitely say it’s something for me to remember for the rest of my life!
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well, I guess some of these traces in me I can’t really shake them off. Rather I shouldn’t since that’s what makes me, me. I gotta admit I still cringe watching myself even till today. Movements in my head are still not translating into my body at 100% of what I want them to be. Gotta work on that groove and strength! If you ever have any constructive comments for my dancing please tell me! I’m really open to them. Well, just a random blog post. BYEE.
Ron
