Hi - I'm back
not that anyone will have noticed I've been away !!
Anyway......... the whole issue of style is fraught with difficulty as there are those dancers who can take on board aspects of dancing and incorporate them into their dancing and others who, for different reasons, won't or can't.
I know my style has changed over 5 years although I'm still struggling to 'find' my own style. Like Franck I've seen some great dancers and thought I wanted to dance like them e.g. I want to Blues like Nigel and jive like Viktor but while I can dream I know I'll never get anywhere near them
But.....at least watching them and going to their workshops gives me something to work on and ideas of how to improve. The only problem I find when trying anything new is that my dancing suffers for a while as I try and adapt to particular style points then I get frustrated and annoyed.
I suppose the point is that we can all learn by watching other dancers but as David says , unless you can get someone to watch you - or video yourself it is very difficult to work out what you look like and what can be improved upon. Be warned though........ seeing yourself on tape can be very worrying ! Just when you thought that you looked reasonably good......
Well that's me off again down south..... a quick tour round Manchester and Leeds so I'll miss the fab Gus doing hi sstuff in Aberdeen
bad timing Gus or was this a deliberate ploy to avoid me in the class ????? I wa slooking forward to heckling from the back. Enjoy the class.