How do I practise dance at home in a small space?
Most choreography fits in two metres square if you shrink the travelling steps and keep their timing and direction. Clear the floor, mark your centre with tape, and practise the phrase facing the longest wall. Anything that truly needs a run-up — a leap, a long travel — is marked in place until you have the room, and the rest is learned fully where you are.
Shrink the travel, keep the time
A step that travels a metre in the video can travel thirty centimetres in your room as long as it happens on the same count in the same direction. Learn the size later. Mark the boundary with tape so you stop looking at the wall and start looking at the phrase.
Floors and neighbours
A rug on a hard floor stops slides but protects the joints and the people below. Practise jumps as small hops or as marked lifts. If the timing of a landing is what you are learning, land it once at full size and mark the rest.
Where to put the phone
In a small room the camera cannot get far enough back for the whole body. Put it in a corner, as high as chest height, aimed diagonally across the room — the diagonal is the longest line you have — and step back until your feet are in frame. A wide-angle setting helps if the phone has one.
Questions people ask
Can I learn floorwork in a small room?
Yes, on a rug or a mat; it needs less room than standing work. Watch for furniture at head height when you come up.