By Josephine Cabanay, Kailua
Variations Are Definitely Not For Beginners
It definitely takes time for beginners to master basic techniques in social dancing. And fortunately most understand the fun they can have in just learning the basics. Ask any line dancer, the thrill is in moving to the music and getting the max in pleasure from doing so. Beginners could understand that nothing can happen overnight and dancing is no different. Basic techniques and steps are not necessarily boring. Top class professional dancers can still look beautiful just dancing the basic techniques and steps. And they can also fully enjoy the movements to the music, especially if the music is among their favorites.
Aye, there's the rub. Most videos show good examples of basic figures danced with style. So beginners must not be too greedy to jump into variations before they understand how they are developed from the basic figures. They can still look good when they dance the basic syllabus figures well. Variations are also better danced with a fixed partner as both dancers must understand how the variations are transformed from the original basic style. LAGS: The Latest And Greatest Syndrome can be understood very easily. It is just a quiet collusion between the dancers and the teachers. The good students want to look like terrific exhibition dancers immediately if not sooner.
The teachers have the opportunity to show the students an sample of their vast repertoire and it fits in very nicely.This is not an unnatural function. The malfunction occurs when the dancers gets very good in LAGS and then they tend look upon their fellow dancers as "lower class." We can be happy just being social dancers. And many of their pronouncements have the sound of being engraved on stone. Then they/we know that they have made "the decision" and we have lost them. These are all part of the adjustments we must make and accept, no hu hu. We remain Social Dancers.
Variations Are Definitely Not For Beginners
It definitely takes time for beginners to master basic techniques in social dancing. And fortunately most understand the fun they can have in just learning the basics. Ask any line dancer, the thrill is in moving to the music and getting the max in pleasure from doing so. Beginners could understand that nothing can happen overnight and dancing is no different. Basic techniques and steps are not necessarily boring. Top class professional dancers can still look beautiful just dancing the basic techniques and steps. And they can also fully enjoy the movements to the music, especially if the music is among their favorites.
"Social dancers believe that one of the best byproducts of dancing
is an increase in their self confidence."
Aye, there's the rub. Most videos show good examples of basic figures danced with style. So beginners must not be too greedy to jump into variations before they understand how they are developed from the basic figures. They can still look good when they dance the basic syllabus figures well. Variations are also better danced with a fixed partner as both dancers must understand how the variations are transformed from the original basic style. LAGS: The Latest And Greatest Syndrome can be understood very easily. It is just a quiet collusion between the dancers and the teachers. The good students want to look like terrific exhibition dancers immediately if not sooner.
"I Will Dance For You" by Willie K
The teachers have the opportunity to show the students an sample of their vast repertoire and it fits in very nicely.This is not an unnatural function. The malfunction occurs when the dancers gets very good in LAGS and then they tend look upon their fellow dancers as "lower class." We can be happy just being social dancers. And many of their pronouncements have the sound of being engraved on stone. Then they/we know that they have made "the decision" and we have lost them. These are all part of the adjustments we must make and accept, no hu hu. We remain Social Dancers.
“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write
what you will never read, you have done rare things
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