~Diana~
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I have never heard or seen anyone up my way hissing at a dancer on stage. Hmm now i feel like asking around to see if any of the pro dancers I know in Canada have had that happen to them. From what I can find out online, a hiss is done to show appreciation of a specific very snaky and slow movement done well.
Really? Cause from the ATS classes I've been to dancers don't yip.
From what I've been taught and from being with other dancers in Canada, the yip is equivalent to the zaghareet. The audience and fellow dancers (who are not performing at the time) used it here to tell the performing dancer that you love the move they just did, their dancing, your joy of the dance, and for encouragement.
From my few workshops on ATS, all movements are signaled by hand and various shifts in body positions. I was told nothing about using sound to indicate shift formation, turning, etc. Unless that is something that has recently come up to indicate more complicated advanced moves or someone started to do that I don't see how that is beneficial cause if they ever perform where people are yipping in the audience I can see that ending in problems for the dancers on stage.
I wasn't aware of ATS audience members doing the "yip," but from the ATS dancers' side of things, the "yip" is kind of a code used as a signal to let the troupe know when to shift formation, turn, etc., so there is a valid reason for it. Nothing to do with line dancing or coyotes.
Really? Cause from the ATS classes I've been to dancers don't yip.
From what I've been taught and from being with other dancers in Canada, the yip is equivalent to the zaghareet. The audience and fellow dancers (who are not performing at the time) used it here to tell the performing dancer that you love the move they just did, their dancing, your joy of the dance, and for encouragement.
From my few workshops on ATS, all movements are signaled by hand and various shifts in body positions. I was told nothing about using sound to indicate shift formation, turning, etc. Unless that is something that has recently come up to indicate more complicated advanced moves or someone started to do that I don't see how that is beneficial cause if they ever perform where people are yipping in the audience I can see that ending in problems for the dancers on stage.
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