What's Your Favorite Style and Why?

Shanazel

Shanazel

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I know next to nothing about ATS so please leap in and correct the following: ATS consists of several dozen specific moves or movement combinations that are memorized by ATS dancers. With everyone having the same vocabulary, a lead dancer gives clues to the group re: the next movement in a dance she is more or less making up as she goes along.
 
Greek Bonfire

Greek Bonfire

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Shanazel said:
I know next to nothing about ATS so please leap in and correct the following: ATS consists of several dozen specific moves or movement combinations that are memorized by ATS dancers. With everyone having the same vocabulary, a lead dancer gives clues to the group re: the next movement in a dance she is more or less making up as she goes along.
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Exactly.
 
Amine

Amine

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Amulya said:
I can't pinpoint just one style, so there are several, I like cabaret styles, from classic to modern and all forms in between. Modern Egyptian is a favorite right now and Am cab still is as well.
I admire The Indigo dancers a lot, I really like what they are doing now. Not their older style but what they have been doing in the last 5 or so years. I wish I could dance like that but I seem too stuck in cabaret style to make that leap completely.
(My own dancing style would float around in between classic Egyptian, modern Egyptian and some tribal fusion thrown in ATM I think :think:, I never wanted to completely conform to one style only, my first teacher was already a mix of classic Egyptian and Turkish so I guess that rubbed off on me)

Any styles you like less? I'm going to make myself totally unpopular here by being honest, but folkloric styles have never been very appealing to me. Can be fun to watch every now and then, but not often. Maybe it's too repetitive to me? Maybe not 'intricate enough' compared to cabaret styles? Not sure. I do like some of the music though. Saidi I music is very danceable for example!
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Hi Amulya,

One of my favorite styles, before the ATS, is the flamenco style and folk dances in general, I fell in love a few years ago with this style mixing fan movements, skirts wide as well as the rhythm of the movements. Recently I even studied fan dancing to improve myself in this area.
 
Amulya

Amulya

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Amine said:
Hi Amulya,

One of my favorite styles, before the ATS, is the flamenco style and folk dances in general, I fell in love a few years ago with this style mixing fan movements, skirts wide as well as the rhythm of the movements. Recently I even studied fan dancing to improve myself in this area.
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I love watching flamenco, but I never thought I could learn it, it looks so hard! The ruffle skirts looks so danceable!
 
Shanazel

Shanazel

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It's a cool dance. I attended one flamenco class. That's all it took to realize, alas, that it is not a dance form for folks with leg joint issues.
 
Amulya

Amulya

Moderator
Shanazel said:
It's a cool dance. I attended one flamenco class. That's all it took to realize, alas, that it is not a dance form for folks with leg joint issues.
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In that case…. I am so glad I didn’t try! I have such bad knees. I don’t know if it’s from belly dance or if it would naturally have happened (I have Ehlers-Danlos)
 
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