Re: Night Club Two Step

Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 04:36:22 GMT
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 03:59:04 +0000 (UTC), email-address-deleted wrote:
>In article <lO__9.3572$email-address-deleted>,
>Bob Wheatley <email-address-deleted> wrote:
>>Why do you think that if a particular dance is interpreted in a way that
>>fits the music it is being danced to has suddenly become a different dance?
>
>When you use Mambo step patterns to interpret slow 23 MPM romantic
>music, you usually call the dance something other than Mambo.
>
>>How is this different than properly interpreting a particular song when
>>dancing WC?
>
>Interpretive WCS is already becoming a seperate dance from ballroom
>WCS. It might be bad as in NYC Salsa, where people from an "on-2"
>school can't even dance with partners from who learned at an "on-1"
>venue, even though they both call it "Salsa".
That's backwards. WCS is not a "Ballroom Dance". WCS has always been
interpretive. Over time the interpretation evolves with the dancers
and the music. As taught and danced exclusively in the Ballroom
community it's certainly recognizable as WCS but partners from the
communities don't generally enjoy dancing with those from the "other
side" as much as from their own "side". "Interpretive" and "Ballroom"
are practically mutually exclusive.
NC2S, like WCS as taught in the ballroom community are codified
versions of street dances. Who is it you think is in a position to
control how others codify or not a street dance? I'm not saying NC2S
was the name of an existing street dance but that it's a codification
of grass roots dancing observed in nightclubs. WCS, of course, had
its name and community prior to it's recent increased popularity in
the ballroom world.
Mike Corbett - Carrollton, TX
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