#Dance classes for boys

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Breaking Boundaries: Embracing Dance Classes for Boys with Passion And Confidence

In the world of dance, the stage is set for an inspiring journey as dance classes for boys redefine perceptions and embrace a new era of inclusivity. Breaking free from traditional norms, these classes offer boys a platform to explore movement, express themselves, and discover their unique artistic voices. In this article, we'll delve into the dynamic realm of dance classes for boys and the transformative impact they have on young lives.

Empowering Movement for Boys: Dance Classes with Purpose:- Dance has long been celebrated as a universal language of expression, transcending gender and age. Dance classes for boys challenge outdated stereotypes, empowering them to step onto the stage with passion, confidence, and a sense of purpose. These classes offer a space where boys can explore a diverse range of dance styles, from classical to contemporary, and let their creativity take flight.

Challenging Stereotypes and Breaking Barriers:- Dance classes for boys are a celebration of diversity, challenging stereotypes that have often limited their involvement in the dance world. By embracing these classes, boys break down barriers and contribute to a cultural shift that acknowledges that dance is for everyone, regardless of gender. This inclusivity fosters a sense of belonging and empowers boys to express themselves authentically.

Nurturing Strength and Athleticism:- Dance is not just an art—it's also a physical discipline that demands strength, coordination, and athleticism. Dance classes for boys nurture these attributes, helping them build core strength, flexibility, and control. Whether it's the power of hip-hop, the elegance of ballet, or the dynamics of contemporary dance, boys discover that dance is a powerful vehicle for channeling energy and building resilience.

Fostering Artistic Exploration and Creativity:- In the dance studio, boys are free to explore their creativity and interpret movements in their own unique way. Dance classes for boys encourage them to contribute to choreography, experiment with different styles, and find their artistic voices. This freedom of expression nurtures confidence and teaches them to value their creative instincts.

Cultivating Discipline and Commitment:- Dance requires dedication and discipline, values that extend beyond the studio. Dance classes for boys instill a sense of commitment as they learn routines, practice techniques, and strive for improvement. These qualities become lifelong assets, shaping their character and helping them excel in various aspects of life.

A Platform for Self-Discovery:- Dance classes for boys offer more than just dance—they provide a platform for self-discovery. Boys learn to communicate emotions, tell stories through movement, and develop a keen awareness of their bodies. This self-awareness extends into their daily lives, fostering a deeper understanding of themselves and their potential.

Dance classes for boys are a beacon of change and empowerment, dismantling preconceived notions and paving the way for a more inclusive dance world. As parents, caregivers, and educators, you're fostering an environment where boys can express themselves freely, explore movement, and embark on a journey of self-discovery. Through each step, leap, and turn, boys are not just dancing—they're embracing their passions, building character, and inspiring others to do the same.

[crabsnpersimmons]

(slowly cleaning out all the art i drafted but never posted)

sometimes the only way to recharge after a long day

is drawing your current blue trauma boi* in the outfit of your previous blue trauma boi**

*Moon, from my hairdresser AU "New 'Do, Same You" AU

**Red Clad Dewey from Another Eden

[absolutebl]

TOP 10 BL Trends of 2023

This is just me with my analysis hat on. 

1. 2023 = the year EVERYONE went outside their lanes

Everything went topsy-turvy this year in BL. 

For example, Korea gave us agonized yearning and outright queerness (The 8th Sense, The New Employee) while Japan served up soft office workers and tender family (Our Dining Table). 

The BL world went askew for a while, especially in the spring of 2023. 

Not that we still didn’t still get Korea’s soft angsty bubbles or Japan’s “what are you doing and why does it hurt?” kink-fests. But there were quite a few BLs that made us chronic watchers sit up in confusion and wonder if Korea was dabbling in Taiwan’s territory or Japan in Thailand’s. Then they fudged the kisses and we were like... okay, back in familiar territory. 

In contrast, Thailand stayed course-correcting for the damage they’ve done in the past with tropes (2022) and self referential meta criticism (2021), but also almost aggressively returned to their BL roots after last year’s series of shockers. Certainly, they are reexamining those roots, transplanting some, aerating others. But they really went back to classic Thai university and high school BL and pulps in a big way in 2023. 

Taiwan is always difficult to gage because they produce so few but they seem to have stuck with what they do best with no deviation while producing more this year than they have in ages. I’m happy for that, why change a good thing? But there is a tiny part of me that really wants them to hit it out of the part with a quality piece soon. For me, We Best Love still reigns supreme, but I would really like the HIStory franchise to give us that level but longer - like a happy version of Your Name Engraved Herein. I think Taiwan has the chops to give us something as good as The 8th Sense or Old Fashion Cupcake but in their style, and I would like to see them exercise their talent for good rather than just profit. 

I know, what a very odd thing for me to say. But if any BL is going to break into the mainstream American market, I genuinely think it’s most likely come from Taiwan. 

Vietnam and the Philippines are falling behind, in general. They just didn’t bring out very many shows in 2023, and what the brought out tended to fub the endings. This is forgivable in Japan (because of their style and quality) but not what watchers want in the lower production value propositions. In other words, if you do a pulp, you can’t mess up the ending (by romance standards). that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. 

2. The Office Romance Dominated

After years of Thailand serving us an endless (and slightly bland) buffet of university (and a few high school) BLs, this year Korea was basically like...

Ofiice. We like the Office. It’s cheap to film we can use grown up actors, acting (mostly) their actual age. 

And yeah... it totally worked. 

To be fair, Japan has always given us office live action yaoi from the beginning (they had the source material) but this year everyone else, including Thailand, seriously started playing in this setting. 

3. Boys Danced with Boys

The darling @heretherebedork​ was a big fan of this one, and I rather like it myself. Prior to this boys dancing together was very very rare in BL, but this year we got way more than our fair share. It was lovely. 

Never Let me Go

My School President 

Bed Friend 

The Day I Loved You 

Step by Step

Be Mine Superstar

Tie the Not 

Dangerous Romance

I think there were a few more. These are the ones I remembered to write down. 

4. Getting (even more) Meta With Tropes 

BL has been getting more and more meta over the past few years but this year they really focused in on tropes specifically. Calling out their own biggest and most favorite tropes in a massive way, especially Thailand and especially GMMTV. 

Like they tunneled in on damaging tropes with Bad Buddy and the like over the past 2 years, and now they are just having fun with us. 

I mean they just started the dancing trope and already they are calling it out? That’s like rapid-fire regurgitated meta there, GMMTV. 

5. Cameos are the norm now 

Taiwan has always loved cameos but in the past the other countries have been show and steady with only one or two a year. (Unless Japan does a parody.) 

This year Korea got in on the game.

Korea rarely starts trends but they do adopt smaller and lesser known existing ones and make them super popular. 

This year they did that with cameo couple appearances, even borrowing a few of Thailand’s pairs (TutorYim and MaxNat traveled north). They did it so much I stopped tracking. Love Class 2, Why R U?, and Jun & Jun were the heaviest hitters. 

Taiwan, of course, came back swinging. Kiseki was the gum-ball machine of pair cameos. (In Taiwan mafia = gay.) 

6. We are entering the cross pollination age

The number of remakes picked up or started this year was startling, not just countries revisiting their own content (Thailand, Japan) but countries revisiting OTHER countries stuff.

Lemme explain...

Korea has started remaking Thai content (Why R U?) alongside cameo'ing Thai pairs.

Thailand is doing Korean IP (My Dear Gagster Oppa) and has 2 Chinese ones slated for next year. 

GMMTV acquired a lot of Japanese IP (Cherry Magic, Ossen, and My Love Mix Up) - and then had problems distributing it. 

This is probably the most surprising trend for me. Especially the Japanese stuff. I would have thought these properties well outside of Thailand's price range (even GMMTV's) not to mention Japan’s legendary IP issues (I swear I typed this pout before the pulled TayNew’s excellent Cherry Magic). 

Also why not option some of the older popular manga instead? Bet that's much cheeper. (I did see a NEW Thai translation of Finder into Thai, which is 90s yaoi, so I have my fingers crossed on that front.)

I shouldn't be too surprised. 

Thailand is running out of y-novel content. Their publication industry is just not robust enough (I was just talking to a friend about this at length recently). But I didn't think they had the funds to option, especially from Japan. 

Perhaps the option deals are for peanuts?

7. Korea got cheeky

I’m not sure quite how else to put this. 

After finally figuring out boys can kiss, Korea started to do not just higher heat but playful higher heat, with more aggressive word play and linguistic innuendo, like they are entering their racy rom-com teenage years (Why R U? Love Class 2 and Jun & Jun in particular.) 

I guess: Welcome to your BL teens, Korea? 

It’s cute of them. I am very much enjoying it. 

And now that comedy is warming them up, we get to see them play with actual queer burgeoning physicality in shows like The 8th Sense. 

It’s nice. I like seeing Korea stretch its wings. They still stick to their bubble, but that bubble seems to be expanding. 

8. The Amnesia Trope is back

And I, for one, would prefer to forget about it. 

9. BL got trendy 

I’m not quite sure how to articulate this category but basically we started seeing a lot of “modern” romance trends out of the west (like a/b/o) show up in our BL. Not a ton and sometimes quite small, but there has a been a steady rise of things like: no seme/uke, femme gay, out gay, condom use, messy gay. 

We also got an increasing range of sub genre frameworks (like mafia, office setting) that’s moved BL pretty firmly (even in Thailand) out of school and into the workplace, whether actual working is involved or not. 

It’s not to the point where it feels like we get more non-school BL than school BL (if I include all countries in this assessment).

Japan, in classic Japanese fashion, quietly started moving in the opposite direction. It’s what they do. 

10. The Vampires are coming 

This is an announcement trend, which I don’t usually report on but it’s so CLEAR. 

So last year we had a spate of announcements of possible Omegaverse (2 from China, 1 from Japan, 1 from Thailand - the only one that’s happened). 

This year we got 5 Vampire (or vampire-esk) Thai BLs announced including one from GMMTV. 

Whether all 5 will actually get made is unlikely, but having had (basically) none prior to this (Kissable Lips), I’m pretty confident that we will get at least 2 of them. And I wouldn’t be surprised if at least one other country made one as well. (Side eyes Taiwan with interest.) 

Final thoughts

It feels like we are also seeing a decline in BL (both by quantity and quality) from Vietnam and the Philippines. As you all know, I don’t track or really watch either of these two very closely. But it feels like, now, no one else is either. 

I think we have likely seen the BL heyday already in both places and their industries are now on the decline. 

We might be witnessing a thinning in the players in the BL field. 

FYI we had approximately 

136 BLs in 2023

Previous Years

2022: 117

2021: 95

2020: 62

2019: 40

2018: 30 

2017: 44 (China’s last gasp)

2016: 27

2015: 17 (50% micro)

2014: 17 (50% micro)

And that’s it! Let me know in the comments if you’ve spotted any additional trends you want to call out.

Last year, 2022′s trend report

2021′s Trend report

Last Year’s Stats & Predictions

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[ryllen]

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[sparklingchim]

[purple--queen]

can't stop thinking about Agatha being on the Titanic & now i need someone to photoshop her into the movie.

[thekidsare-not-alright]

patrick really had his chance to make a solo album and said "ok first, fuck capitalism"

[troybarnesbabygirlconfirmed]

riddle me this batman if troy barnes is so straight why does his diabolical arch only come out around abed?

[oceanwithouthermoon]

imagine kaido trying to wingman kubosai because to him its really obvious theyve been cringefail flirting for MONTHS

but it just results in their little group of four being even more awkward and poor nendo is sooo out of the loop

he just keeps putting them in awkward situations and the whole walk to school and back is filled with comically loud gulps and awkward laughs and red faces and kuboyasu rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly

so now hes gotta actually confront aren and convince him to just DO something about his crush instead 😒

[catinasink]

skirt!! yippee ki yay

[kimjunnoodle]

god could have given me normal kinks but nooooOoo i had to get that avant-garde conceptual shit that has no practical application

[ykffamt]

Oh how I wish I knew what Penn was like before his parents got stuck. We see a little bit of it, but I wanna go further back. Was he just as cocky as before? Less? Was he popular, or just one of those kids who thought he was cooler than he really was ?? Like we kinda get a glimpse of this when he runs for school president, but I wonder if that unearned confidence was a result of, yk, heroing after school every damn day. How social was he, how did his teachers feel about him, was he always kinda athletic? I want to KNOWWW

[zhansww]

[sevdidntdie]

i actually hate all these mlm yearning posts rn like every time i see one of these my heart literally hurts and this is MAKING ME WRITE MY FEELINGS DOWN

like did i actually just take ten minutes to write a story wher he came to my house and made out idk

i hate these mlm yearning posts

[tsukasalover]

im going to start taking dance classes on monday and i Really dont want to (i dont know how to dance) (and im not good at it. At all)

[surr3al1sm]

I decided that I wanted a JD profile picture (specifically Jack Rose because I’m like the most original person). But since I can never take the easy route in stuff, I decided to draw it myself. So I drew two options and I’m going to let democracy decide :)

Drawings below the cut

This version originally sparked the idea lol (option: 🌹❤️🩷)

I’ve been growing pretty fond of this design tho, its just so good. Night Swan really ate them all up (option: 🦢🖤💜)

I am excited to see what democracy decides if it does 🫡