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Originally posted by Gus
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? |
I believe that Style
can indeed be taught. The problem is that it takes a while to assimilate in your dancing.
While you can be taught a move in a few minutes, and within a few hours be able to dance it; with style you can learn new additions at a workshop or a class but it will probably take weeks or even months before you can integrate the Style point in your dancing. As a result, very few people make the effort to sustain the practice.
To answer John S, I believe it is possible to change your style (radically if needed), but as in the above paragraph, it takes time, effort and a lot of motivation.
I personally have had about 4 / 5 very different styles of dancing Ceroc over the last 10 years and everytime I changed it was in response to seeing someone else dancing differently and then taking a Style workshop with them or someone who could teach their particular technique.
Franck.