blackpool congress- Barbara McColl

[marggieyip]

In 2011 Blackpool Congress, Barbara McColl: Making music with your partner, she said, "rhythmical movement in the Rumba. You should not dance line to line."
What does "dance line to line" mean? Please~ Urgently

 

[dlliba10]

Without having watched the Congress, what I can gather is that she meant don't simply move from pose to pose and picture to picture -- the rhythmical movement in the Rumba happens as you transition from one picture to the next, so don't shortchange the process by blasting through the transitions. Let your body show and express each movement, not just get to a pose. (I could be completely off here -- I'm off to look for a video.)

 

[dlliba10]

And welcome to DF, marggieyip!

 

[latingal]

Yes, welcome to DF marggieyip!

As dlliba mentioned, there are many that dance rumba as a series of poses or lines, rumba is a body dance! There should be rhythmical movement in the body!

 

[marggieyip]

Thank both of you so so much!
By the way, "be completely off" means...?

 

[debmc]

I had a coach express it to me as what you do between the bookends. Meaning that sometimes we just want to hurry through the inbetween stuff between the opening line and the finishing line, if that makes sense. But it is what we do between the bookends... how we move between the two lines that is also important. Don't skip over the middle part.