European Professional Latin Championships

Thanks for the results GJB!!!
Wow, Markus Homm & Ksenia Kasper placed after Duknauskas & Lapaeva....interesting.

On another note, I've never seen Ksenia dance with her hair half up. I was surprised by how different it made the dancing look. I normally don't really care for her and just focus on Markus but it was nice to see their video :)

GJB said:
Results posted on DanceBeat & DanceBeatWorld Facebook page:

1. Michael Malitowski & Joanna Leunis
2. Sergey Surkov & Melia
3. Slavik Kryklivyyi & Anna Melnikova
4. Andrej Skufca & Melinda Torokgyorgy
5. Justinas Duknauskas & Ekaterina Lapaeva
6. Markus Homm & Ksenia Kasper

Videos here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/DanceBeat-DanceBeatWorld/360030471068
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Natasha. said:
.....And Slavik - Anna won Rumba:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95jE2luG0EQ&feature=channel
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obviously i am not a world class professional and i have nowhere near the amount of knowledge and understanding of dance that slavik and anna do, but i am just wondering if anyone else seems to think that anna seems stiff in the upper body?

no disrespect, just wondering if i am missing something about the technique here...
 
Thanks for posting the youtube link, there are a lot of good videos up from the comp and I like checking out the recent comps. The advent of affordable HD video has been fantastic for stuff like this.
 
TinyDancer109 said:
obviously i am not a world class professional and i have nowhere near the amount of knowledge and understanding of dance that slavik and anna do, but i am just wondering if anyone else seems to think that anna seems stiff in the upper body?

no disrespect, just wondering if i am missing something about the technique here...
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Nope, you are not the only one. I guess that's her style which I don't prefer that much.
 
Funny...didn't look at that vid specifically, but there is an older vid -- a beautiful rumba to Caruso with her and Stefano -- and I find her anything but stiff in the upper body. There is a lovely fluidity to her movement. One of the beautiful things about dancing...so subjective.
 
njdancegirl said:
Funny...didn't look at that vid specifically, but there is an older vid -- a beautiful rumba to Caruso with her and Stefano -- and I find her anything but stiff in the upper body. There is a lovely fluidity to her movement. One of the beautiful things about dancing...so subjective.
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agreed,in previous rumbas i have seen her do, she has never looked stiff... but if you look at th video posted in this specific thread, she looks very rigid. which is why i was surprised

but like i said, icould be wrong seeing as how i am not a world class professional ;)
 
TinyDancer109 said:
agreed,in previous rumbas i have seen her do, she has never looked stiff... but if you look at th video posted in this specific thread, she looks very rigid. which is why i was surprised

but like i said, icould be wrong seeing as how i am not a world class professional ;)
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i would be careful to infer too much from videos, there are a lot of micro movement that dancers use that are not immediately observable. She might also have had a bad day, but i doubt it if they took a dance from the world champions.
 
Interesting observation, but I would call it balanced control of the body, if you watch their first rumbas you can see how they are working towards it, they are more focused, better balanced and faster, which I guess lead to more stiffnes, but I think its a good thing though
 
If anything, I find her to be very quiet in the upper back/shoulder area which further emphasizes the work she *is* doing in her lower back/torso/hip area, which is quite substantial. I very much like that she takes the busy-ness out of the topline and puts it where, IMO, it should be for a Latin female dancer. I actually find her quite mesmerizing because of this very thing. Makes her look very feminine on the floor, to contrast favorably with extreme athleticism/speed of a Joanna Leunis, e.g...
 
Ithink said:
I very much like that she takes the busy-ness out of the topline and puts it where, IMO, it should be for a Latin female dancer.
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I don't quite agree with this. Especially, your opinion about stillness of topline is required for a Latin female dancer. IMO, it gives more feminine and graceful lines, but is it a real Latin flavor?
 
dlgodud said:
I don't quite agree with this. Especially, your opinion about stillness of topline is required for a Latin female dancer. IMO, it gives more feminine and graceful lines, but is it a real Latin flavor?
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I am sorry but there is no real latin flavor in competitive Latin ballroom dancing. Real latin flavor is in salsa clubs and on the streets of places like Havana. To me Latin-American ballroom *should* be feminine and graceful in a female dancer but talking about there being any actual latin flavor in it is ludicrous. It's like saying the folk dancing showcased in some classical ballets has authenticity. It doesn't. It's too stylized to retain any sort of original flavor the dance is supposed to have. Same with Latin American ballroom - the flavor those dances once had (or still have when NOT danced by ballroom competitors) has long since dissipated out of this dance form... What's left is graceful and feminine dancing which I still say Anna showcases in spades due to the very choices she makes in her movement.
 
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