Last week in class someone was asking about 6 count and 8 count steps, and why theyre different and how they work and .... well, all the interesting questions. This is one way of thinking about this stuff: - Triple steps, steps, kick ball changes, stomp offs, etc are all great little rhythmic building blocks, that you can combine in any way you like. - When youre moving from A to B, or responding to the music, the steps you take should be whatever it takes to get the job done. There arent any strict rules about the way you combine the building blocks. - You can take 2 counts or 6 counts or 8 counts or 10 counts or 100 counts to get from A to B. - If your two guidelines are take care of the music and take care of your partner, then the music tells you how long and how you should move from A to B, and you need to make sure your partner knows where you are, and what youre feeling. Just like musicians in a band, we have to work together. - If youre solo dancing: you can do anything you like! Or can you... ? We usually begin our beginner classes with a particular rhythm (eg hoo-ha, shacky-dah aka step step triple step) and work with that over the course of a class, so we have a starting point. We usually add a break step or a second rhythm for variation. The Intermediate class has been using the mini dip variations to see how we can use rhythm to move - just how far we can stretch this idea. In this video Jenny Thomas and Remy Kouakou Kouame take this idea to the next level: the shapes they make are very simple, but the rhythms! https://youtube/watch?v=sttQr3-lCpM
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:22:33 +0000
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