Movement is a Lifestyle

Movement is a Lifestyle: Movement Lifestyle Experiences

Movement Lifestyle artist: Andye J, Ian Eastwood, Jillian Meyers, Brian Puspos, Devin Jamieson, Shaun Evaristo

Experience: Movement Lifestyle Tour - Chicago

Description: I went to the tour with my boyfriend and my three friends. We traveled from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  On the first day of the tour, we registered, took pictures, bought merchandises, then stretched. We were all pretty excited! Jeka Jane was thereeeee!! but she didn’t teach :( But I still got to meet her and learn along with her anyways. We did a warm up then Brian Puspos taught ‘Rise & Shine’. The choreo was beast. He was a fun and really helpful teacher. Andye J taught us this funk type of hip hop… but I wasn’t sure what the song title was.. sorry :( She was such a down to earth person. LUNCH. Ian Eastwood taught us ‘Faded’ after. Ahh, I had a hard time learning this dance. It was definitely advanced level or something. He just killed this dance. It was veerryyy good. Jillian Meyers taught us ‘Valerie’. I love Jillian, she’s such an animated person. I really like this choreo.  It was like lyrical, contemporary. Just watching her dance… you could see the emotions in her eyes. She was beautiful. After Jillian, Devin Jamieson taught us ‘housing’. The title wasn’t housing but the choreo was practically it. OMG. This choreo required so much energy. I always wanted to learn housing so I was pretty excited but damn, it’s really tricky. Seeing Devin perform this.. I have no words for it. He definitely has a whole `nother energy. First day of class ended so after, was ‘The Social’. We got to take pictures with the choreographers, ask them questions, and had a mini-type ‘dance’ AKA ‘social’. Wish it could’ve been longer :( To sum up first day: INTENSE.

THE NEXT DAY was a better day. It felt like we all improved over night. Jillian started the day with the warm up and then continued teaching us ‘Valerie’. I felt this choreo was a very colorful and fun dance :) Brian finished teaching us ‘Rise & Shine’. I really liked this one because it brought out the confidence, which he intended. Ian finished teaching us ‘Faded’. I’m not even going to comment on myself…. Ian does it best. LUNCH. Andye taught us a new piece, ‘1 + 1’. It was my FAVORITE ^^ This was such an emotional dance in a good way. It felt amazing dancing to this song. It was a stress reliever. Beautiful, just beautiful. After teaching, we all had an emotional moment :’) Finally, Shaun taught us ‘Drop it on the 1’. I am sooo honored to have learned this dance by him. It’s kinda tricky but fun. This one, he intended to make us work on details and execution. Then.. the class ended :( After was the ‘Teacher’s Showcase’ which each teacher performed a piece. Awards & scholarships came after… and I’m not sure what happened after. But, unfortunately… the tour ended.

NOTE: In ONE NIGHT, the ML fam shared an inside joke ‘fast’ and/or ‘so much’ . Someone asked Jeka Jane about her style of choreography and all she said was, ‘fast’. Then Brian kept using it and there it went :) 

I am proud to have been part of the first group to experience the ML TOUR :) I met ‘so much’ amazing talented dancers. I have learned ‘so much’ thanks to ML ♥ I will always support ML! Coming back for more next year!! Sorry if it’s not as detailed.. I didn’t wanna write too much >.<

PIECES I ENJOYED AT THE TOUR - CHICAGO

To begin, I wanted to say thank you first to all the choreographers and staff for such a great convention.  Being my first one, I can’t believe how much I learned this past weekend because it felt like quick dream, but an everlasting one.  Anyways, enough with that moving on to the dances:

Brian Puspos: Rise and Shine
“Be a better person than you were yesterday” 
This choreo was amazing, because of the movements displayed in this piece.  The hand gestures of extending both your arms and feet going out and coming in together like waking up, was my favorite.  Movement changed fast to medium to slow at some points but definitely expressed an emotion to the swift movements.
Overall I enjoyed all of it!

Jillian Meyers: “Valerie”
Let yourself free
I felt very loose and relaxed in this choreo and it felt great! Jillian has such great expressions through all her loosed movements.  I love that idea that when you’re so in to a song and you let the song move you.  I feel that in Jillian when she performed this piece!  LOVED IT!

Devin Jamieson
The foot work in his piece was definitely something new to me because when it comes to momentum I can relate it to physics… Besides that though I enjoyed his piece because it felt like i was jumping on clouds with quick feet.  

Ian Eastwood: “Faded”
Dancer’s choreo has their own texture to their art pieces.
This dance was too much fast.  Even though it was fast it was powerful and it hit hard.   Ian’s choreo from slow-medium-fast grew a lot because starting out slow was a big help for me.  As we went faster, it was mind blowing because all the movement came one right after another.  Loved it also since the power was so greatly achieved.

Andye J: “1+1”
Miss Andye’s one plus one was so moving.  The lights adding such a great vibe to the class and feeling every movement of the song flowed through my body.  It was uplifting and it felt so great.  The point where it got personal and emotional opened my eyes to how moving this great piece of work was as for many other students in the class.  Again thank you miss Andye do come back and visit chitown :)!

Shaun Evaristo: “Move it on the 1”
Wow! Ending with Shaun, was just breathtaking.  The CEO of movement lifestyle was actually there presenting his piece to us the students or should I say MOVERS.  Watching the commercial, then realizing we were doing the same choreo blew me away! Quick and such flawless movements displayed in this piece.   

Overall I am in love with MOVEMENT LIFESTYLE! :) Thank you for coming to Chicago!