Competition Dance Style

[Divissima]

Originally posted by Robert Winter:
one of those perspective things

Ah yes. I turned 30 on my last birthday - 25 now lost in the mists of time

[DavidB]

Originally posted by Robert Winter
though when a girl at dancing the other week asked me, and I told her I was 25, she called me an old fart, so I suppose it is another one of those perspective things.

You will soon get the next independent confirmation that you are getting old. You go to a bar, and comment that the music is good. The barman replies "Yes - it is an Nineties night"...
The only good thing is that you are in a bar, so you can drown your sorrows, and get old ungracefully.

Unfortunately when this happened to me, it was an Eighties night.

[ChrisA]

Originally posted by DavidB
so you can drown your sorrows, and get old ungracefully.

You mean 'disgracefully'. Or you should

[Chris]

Originally posted by TheTramp
Is this the 'moves' v 'musicality' question again Chris??

Not sure . . . similar perhaps though.

The musicality thing is interpreted in various ways . . . and whereas holding an audience's interest can be down to musicality in the sense of responding to breaks, counterpoint, words of the song etc, holding (and maintaining) interest as a continuously coherent thing also makes me think of things like applying (obviously I suppose) blues interpretation to ceroc, or things more akin to Argentinean tango 'story-telling'.

Fred Astaire would tell a story through a dance - the dance would have a 'beginning, a middle and an end' - almost like a one-act play . . .

I don't see this in say Nicky's dancing except for her choreographed team cabarets, but her dancing is nevertheless exciting from moment to moment.

In modern ballet (and contemporary dance) we see the same two strands - in Europe, I'm told, people are quite happy to watch a ballet or dance show without any implied 'story' - it may be non-linear. In Britain, many audiences find this way of working incongruous or too 'experimental'.

I think both are just as valid btw.

Haven't expressed this very well - still something I'm playing with and haven't thought of the words I want to use yet . . .

[Martin]

quote:

Originally posted by Gus
but look at the age range of the people at the top of the tree at the moment ...... all under 30



WHAT? nah...



quote:

Originally posted by Robert Winter
though when a girl at dancing the other week asked me, and I told her I was 25, she called me an old fart, so I suppose it is another one of those perspective things.

Most "out there" dancers have a few more years than 30...

a few exceptions - old fart Robert - well stop dancing with those school kids and move on...