For what it's worth, my personal experience on this: Overhead lifts are *hard*, and obviously have potential for catastrophic failure. On the...
I'm not sure the problem is the inherent danger of the lifts - it's the fact that even the pro-dancers aren't that experienced in lifts. I'm sure...
It's interesting, because as a fairly casual observer of WCS, the pros seem to do it a *lot*, and yet very few non-pros seem to really understand...
As I understand it, sometimes it's a lead for a particular kind of motion - see this thread:...
Well, if someone says "it is easy to do X, as long as you make sure you much easier to start your lead with Y", it makes quite a difference if you...
Don't know the NY scene at all, but it might be worth asking Yuval Hod (http://www.hopswing.com/).
I think I've posted this before, but it seems relevant: Compilation of performances by Eddy Vega and Lisa Nunziella on Star Search xtViG8B_sYM...
DaveDance does. And DaveDance allows aerials, and dancing waltz, or burlesque. It's clearly superior to MJ.
But only in the sense that no-one in MJ is going to say "you can't do X". By the same token, you could take a group of dancers, say "dance what...
Seeing as we're taking on a martial theme, allow me to post the following, which I originally wrote in response to an "are aerials safe on the...
Which is why I said "resembled" rather than "as good as". My point is that the style is completely atypical for Modern Jive. You believe...
The thing is, even if you call what they're doing MJ (debatable, given huge stretches of dancing that completely fall into other categories), it's...
One death I know of, back in 1996. http://www.utdallas.edu/~aria/dance/aerial_death.html After about 10 years of doing aerials, I have to say,...
Slightly different note: If you look at the routines performed on Strictly Come Dancing (UK) or Dancing With The Stars (US), the musicality is much...
In terms of my connecting it to something, her head is fine (if attached to an earlier beat than I'd expect), his head is more problematic (I can...
OK, to be specific, and please take it as read that I'm saying "I don't understand this", NOT "They're doin' it wrong". I don't really get the...
Thanks for this. I can see a lot of what you're saying now you point it out (to be fair to myself, I saw some of it before, but it's quite hard as...
Thanks. I know that as it's much less "in your face", it's probably a lot more difficult to describe than we've been getting away with on the swing...
If it's not too big a request, I think those of us who aren't familiar with the form would find it helpful if you could mark out a couple of places...
I don't really get it either. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, given my background) I can point out places where I think there's obvious musicality (the...
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