Originally Posted by quique:
“Many thanks for pointers.
I've given up on the Samba -- the changes in beat and musical phrasing are just much too much -- but from what I remember; is it correct to say that it's danced with bent knees for starters but when you do the steps the back leg or trailing leg has to be flexed and straight (of course, in time with the music) to give a natural hip sway and that split-second back leg trail on the runs? IMO, that was Jamelia's issue. Her weight was backwards and both her knees were bent through out every move so it looked (to me) skippy and ungainly rather than glidy and fluid.”
“Many thanks for pointers.
I've given up on the Samba -- the changes in beat and musical phrasing are just much too much -- but from what I remember; is it correct to say that it's danced with bent knees for starters but when you do the steps the back leg or trailing leg has to be flexed and straight (of course, in time with the music) to give a natural hip sway and that split-second back leg trail on the runs? IMO, that was Jamelia's issue. Her weight was backwards and both her knees were bent through out every move so it looked (to me) skippy and ungainly rather than glidy and fluid.”
This is why we need Jo Clifton back on CC. The above makes no sense to me (sorry, I'm a bit dim with instructions) but Jo would be able to do a lovely comparative example, like imagine you are a stork that has got it's welly stuck in the mud and you are trying not to knock the skin off a rice pudding, that would make the action perfectly clear
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