Why Training Energy & Expression Matters

Across both the dance world and the fitness world, one essential dimension is consistently missing: the ability to navigate energy and expression with the same precision and tangibility as technique.
People either “have expression” or they don’t, and when they do, it’s often by chance. The guidance given in most classes is already a great start as: smile, show attitude, look emotional, give more energy. These comments could be however developed into much more depth, as there is more to what emotionality and energetic control actually are. But there is often no sufficient time to dive into it.

Energy and expression function like colour. The expression needs guidance, “paint the wall blue”. Which blue? Royal? Deep? Powder? Every colour has countless shades – and so do emotions and energetic states. With the ability to identify and work with these shades, expression might become multidimensional, and consistent. Sometimes there is the feeling that expressive face must always shift into full theatrical mimicry, which can be wonderful when choreography is built for that. But often, the most powerful expression is a toned, subtle emotion that fits the moment. Mastery of expression is the ability to recognise what emotion is present, choose the right shade of it, and adapt it with precision. That often requires emotional opening and inner safety that allow to explore these feelings and letting them come out.

This lack of education (or simply a time for it) is the reason why many people struggle to live their expression to the full potential that both benefits dance and personal life. Mastering emotional nuance, energy flow, and authentic presence in all its variation takes time and practice.

The problem is simple: there has never been an accessible curriculum that systematically develops this skill. So the industry relies on scattered comments, intuition, or personal talent.

The Body Expressive Method tries to fill that gap.

It gives instructors, teachers, and students a complete structure to:
• understand what energy actually is in the body
• identify their emotional states and their different energetic “types”
• recognize how energy is transmitted through subtle muscular and postural cues
• learn how to change energy quickly – sometimes within seconds
• train the nuance between emotional shades, not just “sad/happy/angry”
• connect energy to expression, and expression to movement
• open the internal “expression box” that is often locked in the body
• practise these skills repeatedly until they become as trainable as a technique

Training these nuances is more difficult than learning steps. Techniques and choreography follow logic; expression requires depth, honesty, emotional intelligence, and somatic awareness. It is the hardest part to teach, and therefore the most necessary part to structure.

This module finally gives dancers and instructors the missing tools:
a concrete, actionable, repeatable method for navigating energy and emotionality with the same clarity as technique.