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Old 4th-May-2006, 09:47 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Re: Does the music style dictate the dance style?

Not all my threads...
Should you dance to the style of music?
Do you need a beat/base-line to dance?
Poll: Chicken and Egg: dance or music
Does music define the dance?
What makes music challenging to dance to?
Poll: Do you dance to the beat or the music?

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Originally Posted by DavidB
So no, you can't do Modern Jive to everything. But the limitations are based on practical considerations, and your ability as a dancer, and not on someone else's opinion.
If a track is within the "too fast" range, can't you simply* half the speed you're basing your dancing at and use a few 'double time' moves to keep it looking more connected to the music?
Same with "too slow"; it should be possable to base your dancing on double time and use lots of 'sweeps' and drawn out moves to keep conneted?

If you follow this priciple, then there would be very, very few tracks that you literally couldn't dance Modern Jive to.

{*OK, so it may not be that simple }
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