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I feel like there is a mismatch in the world of dance, especially for hip-hop but I think it applies to other styles as well.
On one side, it's a race for speed. Faster, faster, faster.You have teachers teaching faster and faster choreos, you have big comps that push the fast fast, you have those intensive where it's all *faster*. You're never faster enough and when you can't as fast ... you're left behind. And in turn everything looks... the same. It's so hard to distinguish one teacher from another, they all look... fast.
And then you look at some of "those people have a name in the community for their style" kind of people and they dance... so much slower, not crawling, but the right speed, they never give the "faster, faster faster" feeling and yet they give so much more feeling.
And then I'm like... where and how this mismatch was born? Then of course, you can say I'm whining because I'm not fast enough... but at the same time, why everything must be so fast? Whatever the song, it's fast.
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@AlexInBlue@lgbtqia.space to me this rings of:
Faster is more difficult; that means fewer people can do it; that means its both impressive and exclusive; and to some people in some settings that's all you need or want.
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@AlexInBlue@lgbtqia.space I haven't been in the world of dance for 30 years, and was never really deeply in it, but it seems like you're partly describing an art culture that has become focused on one dimension or aspect of the art (i.e., speed) at the expense of many others. That can be nice for a particular artist or a particular movement or a specific application, but for a big chunk of the artistic world to do that will (I think) always limit what the art can do. It sounds frustrating and to some extent artificial, as you've described it.
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