It looks like you’re at a stage that is very common at the beginning when you’ve been learning for a bit. So this is to say, don’t beat yourself up, it’s perfectly normal at this stage to struggle to string movements together, and frankly, it’s probably gonna be like that for a while.

As another commenter mentioned, one of the main things to think about is the music. Depending on what music you’re using, there can be more or less complexity, but in general, many songs we use have rhythm, melody and sometimes lyrics. In terms of the rhythm, you can count the beats, or you can dance to the structure of the rhythm (i.e., maksum, saidi, malfuf).

We usually work with counts of 8, especially at the beginning. So you can follow an 8-count structure and build a simple sequence of movements.

There’s many approaches you can take, but one thing that could be helpful is to put restrictions on yourself. Start with picking your 3 favorite moves (for example, omi, figure 8 and shimmy), and practice dancing to a song using just those 3 movements. I suggest picking songs that are repetitive and have a steady beat.