I cannot believe (topic: hip contact)
- Thread starter WaltzElf
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Never heard of "hip" contact, but not surprised at all that there are dancers who listen to their teachers nor that there are dancers who criticise those with whom they dance for doing something other than what their teacher has taught them...tanya_the_dancer
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I'm not sure about hip contact, but we do have body contact when we dance.
Rugby
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You will never convince these people otherways. Some people become so loyal to their instructors that the instructor could say it was night in broad daylight and their students would believe them and go to bed. Its great to have faith in your instructor but not blind faith. Everyone and everything is open to question and reform, its how we learn and grow. Those that are not open think they have arrived when they never even left.
Chris Stratton
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Well, I cannot believe how many teach contact of any sort before they teach aligned posture, and standing on your own feet... Contact done right is contact that is in context of the rest of the dancing - but contact done by itself is wrong regardless of where the points of contact are.
Practically speaking, this means that you have more relaxed social dancers who are appropriately not dancing in contact, and then you have the intermediate social/competitive students who feel themselves superior because they are trying to use contact, and tend to be quite obsessive about how they do it. And then hopefully you have a few who have been with it long enough to have developed a sense of dancing that both puts each aspect into context, and has enough redundancy to temporarily absorb minor variations.
Practically speaking, this means that you have more relaxed social dancers who are appropriately not dancing in contact, and then you have the intermediate social/competitive students who feel themselves superior because they are trying to use contact, and tend to be quite obsessive about how they do it. And then hopefully you have a few who have been with it long enough to have developed a sense of dancing that both puts each aspect into context, and has enough redundancy to temporarily absorb minor variations.
Mostly Ballroom
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Once in a while I dance with a dancer who seems to be better trained than me who does the body contact thing as well with a very well defined frame and posture. If I maintain the body contact then I'm off balance and kind of flopping around. Usually I tell them I'm not capable of dancing with body contact. And they'll believe me when I attempt CBM
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madmaximus
Forum Master
Hmmm...WADR
What's so wrong with HIP contact?
[really--I just want to understand the context of the opinion]
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elisedance
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madmaximus
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elisedance
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thanks - WADR
samina
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I'm puzzling over the same question
Hip contact is definitely a point of contact with my instructors. And I don't think anyone would ever acuse them of being out-dated in their knowledge, or ignorant...
elisedance
Active Member
Ah, that roving POC (hey, we have to have that one - Point Of Contact). I'm not sure which part of the anatomy is illegal for POC any more. I seem to remember some moves in social dancing that even have bum contact. Maybe the epiglotis?
- Point Of Contact). I'm not sure which part of the anatomy is illegal for POC any more. I seem to remember some moves in social dancing that even have bum contact. Maybe the epiglotis?
danceronice
Forum Master
Nth to Joe, Sam, Elise, etc. My hips are part of the whole contact thing. Not the sole point, but part of it!