Dance Theory

 From my perspective there are two rival theories for free style casual dance:

1. It's about self expression.
2. It's about staying on beat.

In my experience everyone's dance skill is divided by these two separate dance floor theories. I myself prescribe to staying on rhythm, for me I care little for self expression & like pulling off whatever moves I can while staying on beat:

Therefore core to my strategy is being able to move to the beat, often exhibiting a "bounce." Bounce direction is what I have worked on the most since I started getting back into dance in earnest on New Years. Most people if they can stay on beat will stay on beat by bouncing down on each beat. However, you can also go upwards instead, on beat. This also means you can go left, right, forwards or backwards on beat, 6 directions all together.

The secret to more difficult hip hop steps like the running man, in my opinion, is that your feet do not slide along the floor but instead actually have a minute amount of air between the sole of the shoe and the floor.

Since the 90's I have also worked on techniques that do not bounce at all but otherwise manage to stay on rhythm.

However my technique come shy of the most self-expressive form of dance, which is Voguing, brought to you by the LGBT community (I myself am heterosexual, contrary to some people's assumptions, nor is this me in the following video):

So there you have it, you can do dance the more sexually diverse way where you focus on self expression, or you can do it my way.