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Originally Posted by bigdjiver One of the reasons I come to this forum is to learn and to refine my opinions.
To my unsophisticated eye much of the WCS action above the waist in these clips looks like MJ. Is there any characteristic, above the waist, that makes all of these clips identifiable as WCS? |
Depends what you mean - from your previous postings on similar topics I am honestly pressed to think of
anything danced to 4/4 music that you wouldn't consider incorporatable into MJ.
But in terms of telling "does this clip look like WCS or like MJ?" - even if you only look above the waist, I think it's actually quite easy. I'd say the most obvious difference is that WCS moves use every beat, rather than MJ which only uses every other beat. At first glance, the clip might look like MJ, but listen to the beat of the music at the same time, and it's very different to what MJ would look like to the same music. The other two things I notice are more subtle, and there's some overlap between the styles, but WCS doesn't have the same 'bouncy' in-out rock-step in-between moves (though some MJ couples don't either), and it's more slotted than almost any MJ couple would dance.
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So, am I right that I could walk through most of those routines, with the occasional bit of flash footwork, and still have it regarded as MJ?
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There's a bit of overlap between the styles - the clips with Ben Morris mentioned here are towards the MJ end of the spectrum. If you look at say Brent and Kellese's US Open routine in 2003, it's much more blues than MJ - moreover, 90% of that routine is in the footwork - take that out and you'd be left with almost nothing.
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 What I would consider terribly sad if the amount of such footwork that was put in to make the routine eligible for disqualification as WCS was about the amount that made the routine look too good to be MJ. |
And if MJ had half the footwork in it that WCS does, I expect we'd have some MJ couples still in SDF...