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Originally Posted by Clive Long Looking for some advice and opinions. I would have posted in "intermediates" but there seems to be nothing happening there ! |
If you had posted there, then there would be.
More often it is the "beginner's corner" that has tumble-weeds blowing through it.
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Now "style" can vary, and I need to find my own style, but where do I start? I can keep on dancing and not getting anywhere or do I take lessons? Which ones ? (I am London based). If I was to pick a name that described the style I am looking for it would be "Gene Kelly" rather than "Fred Astaire" (aim high dear boy).
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Do you know what "style" is? Can you point to someone on the dance floor and say "they have it; they don't."? If you can, then try and discover what exactly you are picking up on in the dance...
- Try covering your ears and watching them without sound
- Try watching how their hips are in relation to each other
- Try to see how a simple turn is executed; the timing of it, whien it starts, when it slows, how it goes with the music
- Try to isolate each part; the head movement, the shoulders, the back... the feet.
It's been a while since I took the luxury of simply watching the dance floor, but this must be the first step. If not the dance floor, then films or music videos that contain elements you think of as 'stylish'.
Do this for both the "stylish" and the ones tht you want to avoid looking like: I have learned just as much from trying to see why somthing
didn't look right as I have trying to discover what made it look right for another couple.
If you jsut have a vague notion of what you want, the workshops and classes may refine it for you. If you have a better idea, then they may be able to develop it and give you something more.