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    Ballroom Fusion

    OK ... first of let me apologise for my total lack of knowledge about Ballroom and nil-viewing of SCD, so if I say something more asinine than usual please be gentle ....

    I was wondering .... given all the 'fusion' we've seen from Tango, Lindy, Salsa and WCS ... is there an area where elements of Ballroom dancing, especially the Latin style, could be packaged and taught within an MJ framework? I'm not on about just stealing moves, but about incorporating some of the movement and/or footwork.

    I've got a bit of an issue with cases where people try to shoe-horn native Tango into MJ (IMHO it never looks right), but where you have instructors like Kate and AMir who have developed Jango, a true fusion style can emerge which can still be regarded as MJ. Can this be done, has it been done? Are there dancers/instructors out there who have made this happen?

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    Re: Ballroom Fusion

    Hi Gus I think there are elements of ballroom Latin in Ceroc already but people don’t realise its there!
    I did ballroom and Latin quite intensely as a child so when I started Ceroc I bought it into my dancing quit a lot,
    For example when I’m dancing to slower tracks I’m more or less doing rumba, for a bit faster its cha cha or samba, and when it comes to swingy tracks I’m doing ballroom Jive but without all skipping and kick ball changes,

    I’m not doing all the Latin steps I’m feeling the rhythm of all those dances depending on the music!! And I think a lot of Ceroc dancers do that as well but they don’t realise they are doing it.

    When I see footwork taught in Ceroc I see it mainly as cha cha cha steps and ballroom jive steps, the basic steps in ballroom jive are very similar to Lindy.

    My point is elements of ballroom are quite widely taught in Ceroc (MJ) any way.

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    Re: Ballroom Fusion

    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipW View Post

    When I see footwork taught in Ceroc I see it mainly as cha cha cha steps and ballroom jive steps, the basic steps in ballroom jive are very similar to Lindy.

    My point is elements of ballroom are quite widely taught in Ceroc (MJ) any way.

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    Re: Ballroom Fusion

    I'm told that some of my dancing is very "ballroom" - by people who actually dance it, so I would say that it's already in there... somewhere. since I've never really seen more than a couple of SCD shows and a couple of films with it in.

    {Is the likes of Fred & Ginger "ballroom"? Does that count?}

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