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    Re: Experienced Mj'ers and WCS

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    Re: Experienced Mj'ers and WCS

    Quote Originally Posted by Rocky View Post

    I can claim anything I like as long as I can back it up with facts. It's irrelevant what MJers do - the fact is they are given the opportunity to learn about other dance styles to integrate into their dancing to make them more accomplished dancers. And the fact is that doesn't seem to happen much, if at all, in WCS.
    Only last week I was talking to some westies who had done a series of "Swango" classes (WCS / Tango fusion), - I've even done a class with your friends Brent and Kellese which was how to integrate blues in WCS. And as NZ said, most WCS classes are talking extensively musicality.

    I'm not great at WCS, pretty basic at Blues, and i've not been doing Tango for a huge amount of time either, but dont find it difficult to throw blues and or a few tango steps into a WCS dance with most WCS followers. If I can do it, i'm sure anyone can.

    I often find it more difficult dancing musically with most (not all, by a long shot, but definitely most) MJ followers to be honest.

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    Re: Experienced Mj'ers and WCS

    Can someone post a summary of what the debate's about? Coz I can't keep track now...

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    Re: Experienced Mj'ers and WCS

    Quote Originally Posted by David Bailey View Post
    Can someone post a summary of what the debate's about? Coz I can't keep track now...


    Yes I'm afraid this debate has been filed in my can't be arsed to look at it no more drawer . .

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    Re: Experienced Mj'ers and WCS

    Quote Originally Posted by David Bailey View Post
    Can someone post a summary of what the debate's about? Coz I can't keep track now...
    My dance is bigger than your dance.
    No, MY dance is bigger than your dance.
    You're all wrong.
    No, you are.

    I think that's about it.

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    Re: Experienced Mj'ers and WCS

    Oh, hold on, I know...

    Quote Originally Posted by NZ Monkey View Post
    It seems to me that in other social dancing scenes where there is a wide variety of music played, the dancers generally do dance multiple dances. The Ballroom scene has god-knows-how many dances under it's banner for example. When I was last in the USA I visited a few country and western bars and everybody there seemed to be able to dance WCS as well as NC2Step, County 2 Step and know half a dozen different line dances. Salsa often encompasses Bachata and Merengue as well. MJ takes a different approach.
    Well... that's a slightly different thing. With the exception of ballroom, which to my mind is artificial as a social scene, most dance socials will have some elements of "similar cultural dances" during the evening. Salsa / bachata / merengue, and Zydeco / Cajun / Two-step, are a couple of examples - or in Tango, AT, Vals and Milonga.

    In MJ, the equivalents of this are, say, Blues.

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