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Originally Posted by TA Guy  Inspired by these two posts.
People talk about having a good frame like it's something you can fix with a tape measure. They talk about technique like it's some holy grail, which, if you find it, WOW! You are a dancer! It's complete crap. Technique on it's own is useless. Technique is merely a means to an end.
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I think it is a question of where you draw the deviding lines. It is like people saying that they can't draw. Everyone can draw, just some better than others. You can treat technique as a science and the more I have learnt from the best teachers around the more I see how true this is. In the last year or so I have learnt some of the principles of cause and effect of muscle use in both leader and follower and wow the amount of thought and effort gone into the information that has been taught to me shows that it is a science. I have been completely amazed and introduced to another world by some of the ideas of how the human body can move when it is trained to move under certain guidelines and how it moves through outside influence. Technique can take us to places we have never been before but it is not the only place to visit. I don't think enough is understood by what frame is within Ceroc. I learnt a little about frame from an Argentinian Tango teacher from Argentina and was amazed by how little I knew.
Unfortunately the effects of these techniques can't be easily described it can only be felt. It is also like being in love. You know it when it happens and you are either in love or you are not. Sorry but this does not help much but that's they way it is. Truely great connection goes beyond the physical. It is really difficult but if you have never felt it then you will always be sceptical about the whole thing.
Good technique can improve us but doesn't necessarily make us a better dancer. Ceroc doesn't teach us how to dance. I apologise if this offends anyone but Ceroc only teaches us moves. It is up to the people doing it to make it into a dance. It has been said before that Ceroc is a framework to which we add the body to and give it form.
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Originally Posted by TA Guy Inspired by these two posts.
Some of the most technically gifted dancers are the most boring or most mechanical.
Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against improving technique, I've done it myself, but I was a [bad/average/good] dancer before that, and I'm a [bad/average/good] dancer now. The point is, I'm a dancer both ways. Dance is not a Science.
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What you have to remember is that these mechanical dancers might have bored you but it might have meant the world to them. Remember what they felt would have been different to what the rest of the world could see. Unfortunately I can't ever see a time when technique is something that you can reach an end to unless you stop dancing altogether.