ParaPara Dancing with EKS-D! - Beginner
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Love to dance, but aren't sure how? Then come experience a slice of the Japanese dance club scene with EKS-D ParaPara! Learn about the parapara dance style, its origins, and the eurobeat, techno, and dance-pop music it accompanies. Participants will be guided through the choreography of a parapara dance routine. When all is said and done, we'll be dancing together and moving to the music. Can you feel the beat?
PupSabi
Presenter
Founder and Team Leader of EKS-D ParaPara. An enthusiastic gamer, dancer, tinkerer, tech-head, and all around nerd! I live through movement and music - you can nearly always find me humming a tune, jamming on a good beat, or dancing like no one's watching.
Beth
Presenter
An avid paralist and fan of anime, as well as an obsessive computer gamer and big fan of board games and role-playing games
Raith Aerowing
Presenter
Actively involved in Parapara, gaming, LARP, MMOs, PoGo, and other such nerdy acronyms. Just your average, laid back, generally agreeable, anime fan here!
mindtailor
Presenter
Idealized fictional bros are my jam.
EKS-D ParaPara is a Dallas/Ft. Worth-based parapara dance troupe that has been actively promoting the parapara dance style since 2006. Some of our members have been dancing parapara since as early as 2002, so we come to the table with 2 decades of experience with the dance style and the eurobeat, dance pop, and hyper techno music that accompany it.
Our workshops give attendees a brief overview of the dance style, its origins, and the associated music. However, our primary goal is to get everyone dancing and having FUN with this energetic dance style. We try to appeal to as many learning styles as possible, providing approaches for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (motion-based) learners, so that everyone can get involved. We also welcome spectators if you're more of a people watcher, so come and enjoy!
EKS-D and its members have conducted 6 major performances, countless dance exhibitions, and an average of 2-5 workshops annually at the following events over the years:
A-kon (Dallas, TX) ~ 2008-2019 /
AnimeFest (Dallas, TX) ~ 2008 & 2010-2019 /
Animix (Killeen, TX) ~ 2008 & 2009 /
Ikkicon (Austin, TX) ~ 2008 /
Sakura-con (Seattle, WA) ~ 2009 /
SanJapan (San Antonio, TX) ~ 2008-2011 /
If you love to dance, if you like catchy electronic music, or if you like things that are Japanese to their core (duh, you're at an anime convention), then this is the panel for you!
Learn more about our group at: http://kirakira.org/XD/about/team/
PupSabi
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