Heavy in quickstep

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hjr28

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We've been told our quickstep looks heavy...

Any ideas how to make things lighter... I'm struggling to translate these ways quickstep "looks" into something I can change technically....

Thanks for any comments...
 
While I haven't seen your dancing, I am assuming you may need to work on legs and swing. You may be going more up and down versus across the floor, and it may look held or heavy, as if its hard to move. If possible, certainly ask them what they mean by "heavy".
 
Another possibility is that you may allow your frame to collapse a bit. This is especially a problem when lowering. You need to make an extra effort to stay lifted in your top in these places.
 
Staying very toned through your centers and not collapsing the frame as VT notes are very important in quickstep - and you will also feel less tired when dancing it

But I also agree with fascination's advice!
 
I just think that if the person giving the critique has any skill, they are the best one to explain what they saw so it would be important in addition to anything we might add
 
Well ... most of my teachers had the ability to notice that something is wrong (like here), while their ability to successfully correct the problem was varying - some of them were very effective, some were not of any help ... anyway, I would also start by asking the teacher for explanation first
 
Yes (unfortunately) - even a person without much knowledge will see that something is wrong with one couple if you put a good couple nearby, but will not be able to help. There is a number of people teaching dancing in my area. Even if I limit the selection to ballroom teachers working with competitors (putting aside social ballroom, salsa etc) - they are ex competitors, they have certificates, they are adjudicators on competitions, but the differences in their teaching skills are big (which is also visible watching the dancing of their students).
 
Dancebug said:
Did your teacher fix all of your problems?
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I obviously can't speak for fasc, but while my pro certainly hasn't fixed all of my problems, it's not because she doesn't know how. (To a practical rather than literal defintion of "all".) I'm not a perfect student and even under the best of circumstances, fixes things takes time. But I'd also be pretty concerned if I started to run into issues that my instructor simply lacked the know-how to address.

(Which is not, of course, to say that different perspectives can't help.)
 
It is of course always a combination of a teacher and student, so some of these work better and some worse - whether in general whether in particular situation - everybody have their strong and weak points.
 
In my dancing, one of the things I've noticed was the more light and shade I can get in my quickstep, the lighter it looks overall. The "sameness" of the quicks and slows can look heavy. So making slows slower and quicks quicker has helped me in this matter.
 
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