| Moves v Style
The Viktor and Lydia thread started off a little debate which I thought was worth following up on.
There seemed to be two different camps for requirements from the advanced workshop. Those who wanted more moves and those who wanted style. It occured to me as to just how difficult it is to teach style ... especially within the confines of the standard ceroc lesson. If the teacher can get the dancers to stop bouncing up and down, step on the beat and not lunge backward and forward like quasimodo ... then thats doing pretty well.
Style will always be a personal thing, by its very nature, but I think its mostly learnt by seeing someone else do something you like and trying to copy it. Thats been the most important thing we got from the V&L workshops. The ladies especially were benefiting greatly from copying elements of Lydia's footwork.
My question really is, where did you get your style from and what could be done to better teach style OR are more moves the method by which you learn style?
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