Author: melvin.wolf.toulouse

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Dance

Dancing

Dancing is everything to me. Thank you for finally making me realize that clearly <3

– Everything is dancing if it is what you are feeling, even standing still
– It’s completely OK to love a song one day and skip it the next
– It’s completely OK to not know how to dance to a part of a song one day
– You can dance to every emotion, even if for some, it might not feel natural at first. But sad or angry dancing are as real to me as happy dancing
– Dancing in the dark or with eyes closed can help you get in the “zone” of truly expressing what you feel, instead of just doing moves – when that’s what you want to do
– There is no right or wrong, no good or bad, in dancing
– I’m not here because I want you to learn “my” electroswing moves. I’m here because I want to help you express music, and give you some new tools to do so.
– You can dance always, anywhere, anytime. You can dance while sitting and writing your thesis (with your feet, with your shoulders, bobbing your head, …). You can dance while cooking. While bringing out the trash (let the neighbors how cool you are). While standing under the shower. You can shuffle to the coffee machine instead of walking to it. While standing in the supermarket queue. You can dance always, anywhere, anytime. If you feel it, dance!

Dancing – using our body to express emotions fueled by music

Melvin Wolf

Some of my music

Note: My playlists change over time. Make sure to save songs you like 😉

Electroswing – my personnal electroswing playlist. It’s what I learnt to dance to, I’ve danced to it for hundreds, probably thousands, of hours.
Dance – my current playlist with the danciest song for me – somewhat a mix, mostly EDM/Electroswing
New all – a playlist I’m saving many songs I like in. A quite wild mix, but it contains many dancy songs, that are a bit slower, more groovy and chill, then “Dance”
Pavrov stellar favs – a playlist I can loop on repeat
EDM Dance – A for now very small playlist with some songs I sometimes “dance hard” to, even if I don’t listen to them much otherwise

Your music

I would be so so happy if you share playlists, artists or songs you like to dance to. Maybe we can grow this section over time 🙂

Inspiration and tutorials

Inspiration:
Sven Otten – the OG
Smilin – a German sharing her journey through electroswing dancing, you can see her moves change over time
A compilatoin and another compilation
Tutorials:
2-6m tutorials of amazing quality
Tutorials by Smilin

Categories
Poetry

express

I love the beauty of poetry
To express images roughly,
But convey emotions thoroughly.
Get words do sing, dance and sizzle
Or let the last line slowly fizzle
Out

The reader can solve the rhyme puzzle
But for the author, meaning remains a riddle.
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Poetry

Everything is Relative

Everything is relative
I said to my cousin
And without much fussin
He agreed he was my relative
And to him he is everything
And he admitted I am his relative
And to me I am everything
So everything is relative
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Poetry

Boogie Woogie

These songs blow your mind ?
For mine they sure did
I’d rather go blind
Then have to get rid
Of Boogie Woogie ~ Boogie Woogie ~
Boogie Woogie ~ never gloomy.

Seriously, some amazing music there, go check it out! How about a Swanee River Boogie or this amazing piano-bass riff.

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Poetry

Wake me up when September ends

          In the middle of September
            The sky a clear blue
              As if calling
       Rejoice!    Summer is due
Without further cue
    I follow my feet
        Weaving through the cars,
            Spinning through the park.
              People pass by me as I remark
    With my stars and idols out of reach
      At least that guy, this girl - I’d like to meet
          As silently we greet
        For headphones, you can’t beat.
      Disappointed, my feet turn
    No longer noticing the suns’ burn
  Until warmly greets my screen
On the couch where I’ve always been.

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Poetry

Bite the hand that feeds

A young girl
And a man
Worried,
For heartily
They disagreed.
He worked today
As he thought of tomorrow
But she was young
So she was free
To foresee
That when tomorrow pass
And tomorrow rebirth
His heart shall berst
At the plastic
Where was sea
Desert 
Where was tree.
For even a bee
On a flyby spree
Heading for a lotus
Can’t help but notice
That he too in the eves
Enjoys the seas and reeds
Where the breeze never cease
Yet
Oil from the soil bleeds
To feed the outcome of his labour
As from his hammering, trimming, screwing, chimming
Matt grey machinery proceeds.
And the master for his subsistence,
Gives the money that feeds,
The school bills pays indeed,
The electricity and internet keeps running,
So young and free
She can already see
The disaster well in making.

The thematic this poem attacks is the generational divide that arises around climate change and climate policy, often leading to implicit distancing or explicit fights within families. I just wanted to show both sides – even though I know which one I stand on.

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Poetry

Blue

Blue

Nothing but blue, 
          every blue.
Straight down, impenetrable, dark deep blue,
hiding mysteries unknown.
Straight ahead, facettes of light blue,
Everchanging with apparent joy.
Blue, blue over blue
         Nothing but blue,
                    Every blue.
Under the rain, greyish blue,
constantly hammered by the powers above.
Under the sun, millions of golden reflections,
dancing with the blue in a beauty untold.
SUDDENLY
White foam on belligerent waves -
Ending the peace of interminable blue,
Created by the storm that ended my dreams.

This was my first poem ever. Objectively speaking, it’s not the best. Subjectively speaking, it means the world to me. I spent 7 months on a sailing boat, crossing the Atlantic twice. My brain forced me to write it down after etching every word into my brain at 5 am, reminiscing on those times, both visually and emotionally. If you get to know me very well, I’ll tell you more of the meaning veiled by the chaotic words.