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Originally Posted by MartinHarper On "blues", I'm surprised to hear you say that "what we now know as Blues has been developed from an MJ base", and similar comments. I'm skeptical of this - it doesn't seem very likely. |
I'm going by threads here about "what is blues" and some informative posts by Nigel (Anderson?), DavidB and a few others. It developed basically because people wanted to dance UCP without being sleasy/crude. Initially danced to blues music because the mood and tempo fitted it.
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Blues generally raises my suspicions, though - a lot of different stuff gets taught under that banner, and few teachers seem able to describe the dance in any more detail than "what people do to blues music".
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Hold that thought. Give me a week or two (+ proof reading) and I'll have another document "Blues and Moves" giving what I consider blues and how to take moves and modify them for this style of dancing. (...with some of the better moves I have 'discovered')
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It was funny to read a workshop written from a heteronormative (word of the day) perspective in gender-neutral terms. Nothing wrong with it, but it made me chuckle. What puzzles me is this: what made you decide to write such a female-centric (or even follower-centric) piece? For a male lead, that seems like quite a challenge.
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I try to write all things now genderless for two main reasons: I see so many females dancing as leads (and doing better than a lot of men
) and a lot of good male dancers are experimenting with the concept of following (and not doing as well as most ladies
).
Once you get into the hang of it, it's not that difficult - I find that loosing the "he/she" is the hardest.
As to why I wrote it; I was having PM chats with a few females about how to make their dancing more 'aluring' to their partners. How to better tease and flirt. It made me think on what
I found sensual and how i could invite {/encourage
} the follower to do more of this stuff.
All feedback greatfully recieved
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I've just noticed an e-mail burried with some feedback from someone I asked to proof-read ... there may be a revision 2 soon 
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