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Originally posted by Glider
I've noticed that almost everybody, myself included, subconciously copies people that they've been watching. I don't think picking up style is about hard slog and videoing and coaching, just watching a style that you like is enough to pick most of it up. |
If only it were that easy...
You do pick up style by watching, but watching is not enough. You need to be able to feel the way someone else is dancing (empathy), and try to replicate that feeling in your own dancing.
This will only get you so far though as your body will not be able to instinctively reproduce some of the subtleties you observed until you have practised a variety of techniques / footworks / movements... Once you have accumulated a dictionnary of potential moves, it becomes easier to emulate (or at least try semi-successfully) other dancers.
So don't just settle down in front of those videos just yet!
Franck.