Ballroom style

AndaBien said:
What, exactly, does that mean? Does it mean that everyone who dances that way is imaginary? Which styles do actually exist?
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I believe newbies point is that "VU style" is simply a marketing term used for hype. In fact, it seems to have gone out of style in the UK over the past year. A couple of years ago, you couldn't throw a brick in London without hitting a visiting "VU style guru" offering overpriced workshops.

Now, not so much...

bordertangoman said:
@DB eerie how we were both thinking of F. club......
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Our minds are becoming one.
 
Dave Bailey said:
I believe newbies point is that "VU style" is simply a marketing term used for hype. In fact, it seems to have gone out of style in the UK over the past year. A couple of years ago, you couldn't throw a brick in London without hitting a visiting "VU style guru" offering overpriced workshops..
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basically cos most brits cant dance it.....I'm more of a Vooom dancer*

Dave Bailey said:
Our minds are becoming one.
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is that the tango connection everyone waffles on about?



*"Voom is so hard to get,
You never saw anything
Like it, I bet.
Why, Voom dances to anything
musically as can be!"

Then he yelled,
"Take your hat off now,
Little Cat Z!
Take the Voom off your head!
Make this milonga Go!
Hurry! You Little Cat!
One! Two! Three! GO!"

Then the Voom...
It went VOOM!
And, oh boy! What a VOOM!

Now, don't ask me what Voom is.
I never will know.
But, boy! Let me tell you
it allows you to dance to Galla Ciego!

with apologies to Dr Seuss
 
Peaches said:
See, and I just don't find them to be all that different. Shrug. Not comfort-wise, not ease-wise...not really even technique-wise. (Granted, the last could be on account of my own crappy blending of techniques, but still.) Guys around here tend to be primarily shoulders-parallel, but they tend to lead a blend of movements--crossed-back molinetes but pivoting ochos, for example. I've just never really thought about it much--my lessons would tend to move between open, V, parallel w/o weight sharing, and parallel w/ weight sharing, so all of the various styles just seem...equally normal.
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I did quite a lot of V embrace with my head facing right this past week. I discovered that actually, I'm not as bad as I thought... it must have been the few leaders who I was first doing it with who made it awkward in some way. The people I danced with this weekend felt comfortable. It's still not as natural for me as looking over the leader's right shoulder or at least having my forehead to his cheek, but it wasn't impossible for me anymore either.
 
Is there a thread that talks about the various types of embrace? As in explaining not arguing about?

Would be a good read, if such a thing existed.
 
Dave Bailey said:
I believe newbies point is that "VU style" is simply a marketing term used for hype. In fact, it seems to have gone out of style in the UK over the past year. A couple of years ago, you couldn't throw a brick in London without hitting a visiting "VU style guru" offering overpriced workshops...
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Yet, when we in this forum mention VU we all seem to understand what the reference is. If we see a couple dancing that way we can describe it as VU.

Milonguero style didn't exist until Susanna Miller began teaching it, but soon after that everyone knew what it meant. The people who danced that way had been doing so for many years without it having a name. The name is now out of vogue, but if someone says milonguero, I think we all know what it means.

The fact that terminology comes and goes, for whatever reason, doesn't mean that way of dancing doesn't exist.
 
pygmalion said:
Is there a thread that talks about the various types of embrace? As in explaining not arguing about?

Would be a good read, if such a thing existed.
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Awww...aren't you so cute! ;):D

Seriously..I don't think so. It would be interesting, and informative, but I doubt you'd get any sort of agreement or coherence. Possibly civility, but a greater likelihood of incivility.
 
Zoopsia59 said:
I did quite a lot of V embrace with my head facing right this past week. I discovered that actually, I'm not as bad as I thought... it must have been the few leaders who I was first doing it with who made it awkward in some way. The people I danced with this weekend felt comfortable. It's still not as natural for me as looking over the leader's right shoulder or at least having my forehead to his cheek, but it wasn't impossible for me anymore either.
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Funny how that can work, innit?

There was one guy I danced with a couple of times a few years ago... I had the absolute hardest time following him AT ALL when I started. I'd gone for the usual-around-here straight-on embrace, and just nothing felt right. I mean, seriously everything felt hella off. It had me seriously doubting myself. And then one time--still not sure how, if I adjusted, or we opened-then-closed and I ended up in a different position--I ended up sort of off to his right side with a pretty significant V-opening...and suddenly everything became easy. The leads were crystal clear, movement was easy, things just flowed. Strange how that happens sometimes.
 
Peaches said:
...There was one guy I danced with a couple of times a few years ago... I had the absolute hardest time following him AT ALL when I started. I'd gone for the usual-around-here straight-on embrace, and just nothing felt right. I mean, seriously everything felt hella off. It had me seriously doubting myself. And then one time--still not sure how, if I adjusted, or we opened-then-closed and I ended up in a different position--I ended up sort of off to his right side with a pretty significant V-opening...and suddenly everything became easy. The leads were crystal clear, movement was easy, things just flowed. Strange how that happens sometimes.
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It can take a few dances to get familiar with a new partner, even when you are both used to the same embrace. Sometimes I sort of enjoy that period of wondering what's going on, trying to figure it out. Then I also enjoy the moment when you do get things adjusted and the connection jells.
 
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