Portals Dance is a web application that helps to learn and practice dancing with confidence.
The only way to build your skills is practice. Powered by gamification, Portals Dance creates a GAME around our dance practice.
The goal of this game is to survive in 100 portals.
Learning how to freestyle is very easy. You just need to master 5 basic concepts that could describe any move. A concept is an idea that could be transformed into moves.
The same way, we collect a vocabulary of words, sounds, and meaning to communicate and express ourselves using language. Same with dance, but we collect moves, concepts, ideas and combos.
Portals Dance has a unique training method for beginners. You will understand how to read dance, how to improvise, and how to grow as a dancer.
By tracking your progress, you are creating a game around your learning process and practice.
You'll learn how to apply game mechanics to daily life.
Portals use metaphor game mechanics that help to train imagination.
Every portal has a unique and fun theme. In life, you dance, and in the portal.... it could be anything...
You don't need dance tutorials with details description how to move.
When you know how to read dance, you can use any dance video as a tutorial or dance workout.
You can think that portal is a playlist for your favorite YouTube dance videos. Collect your favorite moves and videos in one place and learn from them.
By tracking your progress, you are creating a game around your learning process
You can customize the portal at any time. Add more videos to the steps.
Any style. You will learn how to improvise based on concepts. Dance concepts are the alphabet and the musical notation for dance. You will learn how to read any dance. Any dance style is a combination of concepts. You can learn any style of dance with fun and excitement using the skills gained from Portals Dance.
Gamification is an idea to apply game elements and game thinking to any process. By itself, DANCE is a great example of gamification. Dance is the gamification of physical exercise! Zumba - is the gamification of physical exercise. Yoga is a dance with slow motion and pantomime concepts. A great example of gamification is the language learning app Duolingo. They use points, badges, tournaments, leagues, day streak and other game mechanics.
Portals Dance is similar to Duolingo, whereby we learn how to dance. And there are lots of similarities because dance also is a language. And to learn everything, the key ingredients are repetitions. Portals make repetitions more fun.
Portals Dance for beginners and professionals.
Portals Dance has a unique training method for beginners. You will understand how to read dance, how to improvise and how to grow as a dancer.
Professionals also can learn a lot from unique portals.dance method and apply it in life. Professionals dancer can organize their training and motivate yourself to get to the new level. There is always a new level in 100 portals ahead.
Professionals can create portals for their students and provide a better and more engaged learning process. For example, you can create a portal with 10 - 20 - 30 steps with your lessons, dance tutorial, tips and tricks, timer for self-training. Portal is a great tool for pushing students forward.
Hi! My name is Roman, I am a CEO of an IT company, web developer, gamification expert, musician and dancer. I learned how to dance when I was 30 years old using the portals method.
Since then, I fall in love with dance as an amazing workout for the body and mind.
It's never too late to discover the world of dance.
