Originally Posted by
David Bailey
It's how it looks to me. Both as a customer, and as someone with some years' experience of seeing how other social dance scenes evolve, yes.
If you look at salsa, for example, the whole "cross-body lead" style pretty much swept across the UK scene quickly. In a period of about 1-2 years around 2000, almost every teacher had switched to offering classes in it. Similarly, the bachata classes took off around 2005 (ish), equally quickly. I can't think of a single MJ-wide change which is as significant to the teaching and the dancing as either of those two were to salsa.
But both of those changes happened from the bottom up; they weren't imposed, they just happened because the scene had the freedom to innovate quickly. There was no "book of moves" to adhere to. Teachers individually just reacted to what local dancers wanted.
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