For a different perspective from Salsa, here's something posted today at
www.dance-forums.com:
Quote:
Posted by: Elder Sanchez, Founder and Managing Director Salsoteca Dance School
I’ve got nothing against New York style, but it requires a lot of big moves and takes a lot of space. People watch performers dancing on stage and they think these are the best dancers and they want to copy them. But it’s not possible to reproduce this style on the social dance floor. You can’t dance in the same way on the social dance floor. What performers do on a stage is rehearsed 100 times to get it right – you can’t do that in social dancing and you can’t use the space amount of space.
The result is social dancers in Europe want big dance floors – but they aren’t listening to the music when they dance. They move to the music, make moves they know to the music – but moving to music is not the same as dancing to music. This makes social dancing too technical, too mechanical.
This problem has created the problem of poor bar takings. People think they’ve got to learn everything 120 per cent and not make mistakes so they’ve got to be sober 120 per cent. These technical moves can’t be reproduced if you drink. So nobody drinks, everybody drinks tap water and you need vast spaces to perform moves. |