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Last Login: 9/5/2010 2:33:03 AM
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Something that has intrigued me for many years in social dance is how very few people can actually 'hear' and dance to music.
I would estimate less than 20% of people can move to a beat and less than 10% can hear the phrasing in a piece of music.
That's not to say people can't put in a fine athletic performance, its just that in (Ballroom dance particularly) it often has no contact with the music. More extraordinary, the general public, on such shows as 'Strictly Dancing' don't seem to care whether people are dancing to the music.
This brings up a quite a few questions.
Ballet (and Swing) dancers clearly dance to the music, how is that trained? Swing dancers get into Swing by a process of elimination, the average dancer can't get in and out the musical phrasing because they have no musical awareness and cannot understand what they are being asked to do. They weed themselves out.
This process must occur at a young age in ballet, are the novices taught music formally or do they just pick up rhythm and music theory intuitively (like people doing Swing) - or is they some 'natural selection' process.
The other thing that I'd be interested to know about, is how ballet dancers feel about the fact unless you are musically trained you are unlikely to be able to appreciate a performance. . . . .I've watched dancers (is that the righ word) dance out of time on TV and nobody else has noticed. It's a scary, scary feeling.
I'm interested to hear your opinions. . . . .
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Last Login: 6/5/2010 3:09:58 PM
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Well dance and music are both very important things.
One can not dance better if he / she do not know much about music so dancers have to have good musical sense as well.
Dana-Girl
http://www.dancerz.com/dana-girl
The World's Dance Network
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