So true - no pain without gain, that's my motto.
But that's natural - and I think the more information we get about stuff outside our local dance world, the better. I've been dancing ages, and I'd never explicitly considered things like floorcraft or musicality before getting on this forum.
A thread going off topic? Can't have that!
You could say that about dancing but people still go to classes.
For some musicality is natural and easy. I find it pretty easy myself which has made me terribly lazy about working at it.
It is something you can learn and improve, you might have to start to to think about music differently, listen to it differently, but its a world waiting to be explored for many dancers, they just need a little help in finding the way. Its not just something for some already musically gifted group of dancers.
And yes, I've learnt a lot about musicality through this forum. Thanks guys.
Reading this has made me giggle and look at something I do myself.
If I have a really good dance then I have found myself doing a quick clap at the end of it with the excitement of it
My goodness...will that be seen as being patronising or something else bad? DO hope not!
I got a "Well Done" last night.
Admittedly it was qualified with a more specific comment: something like "You interpreted the music nicely - Well Done!". Does this count?
Love dance, will travel
I do see what you mean - it's funny how much difference there is between "That was great" and "You did great", isn't it?
Even though they're pretty much the same statement ("I think that you did well there, congratulations"), one is seen as congratulatory / encouraging and one is seen as patronising / smug.
All I'd say is, I'm pretty sure that most people are trying to be encouraging rather than patronising, but some of us aren't that good with words. So I think you should probably assume it's meant nicely rather than meanly.
That's my attitude .
I danced with a lot of guys on Sat night that I haven't danced with for a while, some not since they were in the revision class. I could see progress and I was telling them this - I hope they all took it as encouragement!
However I can see a change in people's dancing and recognise improvement and development, even if they were better than me in the first place. So its definitely not 'looking down' on anyone!
After this thread, is there anyone else considering making the trip down to London, just so that they can dance with Tiggs, and say well done afterwards*?
*Possibly combined with a little pat on the bottom
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