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Author: Marten Angner

Apple to the teacher

🍎What drives a teacher or an organiser? How anyone can help the community flourish. The dance community is not about winning like in a competition. It’s more about keeping the game going.The only way somebody wins is if everybody wins.When a certain teacher manages to reach some success it doesn’t mean they take it from

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Respect & Hygiene

How do you even start addressing the issue of personal hygiene in the dancing scene? People with meticulous hygiene will probably over react to any advice given. The first thing to talk about is that bad body odor might not be your fault. It is respectful to smell good on the dance floor. Sometimes it

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If you hurt someone’s feeling

Did you mess up? What to do when you hurt someone’s feelings? In the dancing scene, like every other community, there will be disagreements and conflicts. It’s inevitable and just a fact of life. In conflicts when the emotion runs hot, you can say and do things that you later regret. Then you will realize

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Let’s really bond our shoes with the soles

We in Movem offer special soles that you can put on any normal sneaker to make them into heavenly dancing shoes with a perfect smooth feeling on any surface, inside in the dancing studio or outside in the open air! People often ask how to mount the soles on their sneakers. The Movem soles are

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We teach progressive level

How Movems creative thinking is breaking the rules of teaching in couples dancing. When you think about it, you have been learning dancing in the same way for a long time. We have got used to what a dance class is and maybe we got stuck in old habits? Maybe even without noticing that the

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We are not in competition

If you are an artist, teacher, dj or organizer in the dance community. Remember that me and all the other artists, teachers, djs or organizers are your friends, partners, allies and colleagues! Maybe the bond between us professionals are actually the network that enable connection in the scene. Phones on a network are not fighting

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Kizomba dancers show up and don’t leave early!

💞 You might be more important than you think! Most dancers might not always fully appreciate the value of them showing up. It’s so easy to think, “today I am a little tired”, “tomorrow, I have to rise up early”or “I have so much to do in my life right now”. You might also bare

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I used to have ambitions, now I dance kizomba!

Before I started dancing, I had a lot of pointless ambitions. I spent every waking hour chasing fame and glory. Burning inside of me, was the thirst for respect, recognition and connection. In my mind Getting status through flashing luxury items would impress people enough to get everything I wanted in life.

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Handling rejection in the dancing scene might not be as hard as you think

Everyone who dances know couples dancing has its up’s and down’s. Especially becoming a dancer or getting in as a newbie in a new scene inevitably means somewhat of an emotional roller coaster. Sometimes, extreme disappointment through a series of rejections can be enough to make some people quit dancing completely. In this article we

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Why do we try to solve problems dancers?

Someone said, a dance teacher is helping you solve the problem they helped us create! This is so so true. This pretty much summarize how the idea of the Movem products aimed at the social dance community came to be. But, why even bother? Creating products must be hard? Yes. True. Here is the story

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