Go look at Anna's comments under midway. It says it all.

"Go look at Anna's comments under midway. It says it all."

No, I'm afraid that all that your other alias has done is repeate your same old mistakes!

"She" hasn't for example done a thing to explain this rediculous idea of yours that the only similarity between walking and dancing is that both have two feet.

Come on, get a clue. Walking and dance walking are fundamentally THE SAME IDEA in their body and standing leg action. There's a trivial difference in that the moving foot is not picked up, and dance walking draws out phases that we tend to pass quickly through in ordinary walking, but they are are just variations of emphasis upon the SAME FUNDAMENTAL MEANS OF LOCOMOTION.

Who thinks lifting the feet is a trivial thing. Show or point in the direction of any instructor and they will tell you. You have lost control if the feet are not skimming the floor. Except of course the Tango which is a walking dance. Thats right a walking dance.

"Who thinks lifting the feet is a trivial thing."

If you actually understood the nature of the action of the STANDING FOOT AND BODY, you would recognize that this - the important part - is not really altered by the decision to pick up the foot or not. These critical actions are basically the same between WALKING vs. DANCE WALKING - THEY DIFFER ONLY IN THE EMPHASIS.

"Show or point in the direction of any instructor and they will tell you. You have lost control if the feet are not skimming the floor."

No one recommended picking up the feet.

You are unable to understand that pointing out how picking up the feet will not alter the body or standing leg action IS NOT THE SAME THING AS ADVOCATING PICKING UP THE FEET.

"Except of course the Tango which is a walking dance. Thats right a walking dance."

EXCEPT THAT THE BODY AND STANDING FOOT ACTION IN TANGO IS NOTHING LIKE ORDINARY WALKING!

Again, you concentrate on the TRIVIAL DETAIl OF PICKING UP THE FEET, AND AS A RESULT

TOTALLY

IGNORE

THE

CHARACTER

OF

MOVEMENT

You have an incredbly short memory. What exactly did you mean when you wrote
When you dance you are also only on one leg at a time. Do you remember writting that
Your memory is not very good going from one paragraph to the next. In one it would seem you are saying it doesn' t matter if the feet are lifted from the floor. And then. No one recommended picking up the feet.
You should be condeming it. Picking up the feet will alter the body or standing leg action. If you lift your feet from the floor your feet will get faster and you will go out of time with the music. And if you are not aware of the timing you have double trouble. The foot must skim the floor. When we walk our foot does not skim the floor. If it did we would be kicking out feet against any uneven pavement or pathway. Isn't that right.

"You have an incredbly short memory. What exactly did you mean when you wrote
When you dance you are also only on one leg at a time. Do you remember writting that"

Of course I remember writing it. It is so obvious that it was quite shocking that I had to point out such a basic and obvious fact to you!

"In one it would seem you are saying it doesn' t matter if the feet are lifted from the floor. And then. No one recommended picking up the feet."

There is no conflict between those statements. I did not recommend picking up the feet, I pointed out that picking up the moving foot

WOULD

NOT

SERIOUSLY

ALTER

THE

STANDING

LEG

ACTION

That is how the STANDING LEG ACTION can be essentially the same idea in walking, where we do usually pick up the feet, and in dancing where we do not usually lift them.

"If you lift your feet from the floor your feet will get faster"

Only if you have a MISTIMED BODY ACTION.

If you have a well timed body action, your feet will not move too fast, regardless if they are on the floor or not. Do you feet move too fast when you walk down the street? Obviously not. To make them move slower in dancing, you must SLOW DOWN AND DRAW OUT THE BODY ACTION. Dragging your feet to keep them from going to fast is a crutch - a quick fix when there's no time to learn the proper BODY ACTION.

You should not pick up your feet, but YOU SHOULD NOT DRAG THEM WITH BRAKING PRESSURE either. They should skim the floor, NOT DRAG ON IT.

"you will go out of time with the music."

Timing is a function of BODY MOVEMENT. If your body is off time, your are OFF TIME REGARDLESS OF YOUR FEET.

"When we walk our foot does not skim the floor."

Obviously - but you still let this UNIMPORTANT DETAIL DETRACT YOU FROM THE CORE BODY ACTION.

You will never understand the dances until you learn one simple less.

IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MOVING FOOT !

The moving foot stays in contact with the floor it does not lift.
It is all about the moving foot. The first step is just a step. It is on the count of and, or as the moving foot is moving. This is the step we dance. Latin or Modern.

"The moving foot stays in contact with the floor it does not lift."

Yes, but SO WHAT? The foot is in contact with the floor BUT NOT SUPPORTING ANY WEIGHT. Thus there is NO FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE IN THE BODY OR STANDING LEG ACTION CAUSED BY LEAVING IT ON THE FLOOR.

What you've identified is a COSMETIC difference between walking and dance walking - IT IS NOT A *FUNCTIONAL* DIFFERENCE.

"It is all about the moving foot."

Just go around saying that a lot - it will point out to everyone that you really don't understand the first thing about dancing.

Dancing is not about the moving foot.

It's about the MOVING BODY.

And the foot that is moving the body - which is of course the standing foot.

Until you figure that out, you will continue to analyze everything in a severly distorted and backwards way, because you COMPLETELY MIS THE WHOLE POINT OF DANCE TECHNIQUE. The point, as any real dancer will tell you, is to accomplish MOVEMENT OF THE BODY.

Champioship dancers do not drop or fall. They use their knees and ankles and are constantly balanced. Are you saying they are not balanced.

"Champioship dancers do not drop or fall. They use their knees and ankles and are constantly balanced. Are you saying they are not balanced."

They are poised and moving with care and precisely the timing they want, but like most humans in motion they are OFF BALANCE.

The reason you may not want to call it that is that being off balance in this way is such a natural and everyday part of human movement. It's DESIREABLE - wheras the minute I say OFF BALANCE, you start imagining something unintended.

This is INTENTIONAL, NECESSARY IMBALANCE - if it's happening unintentionally, or if its out of control, then you aren't just off balance, you are moving without aim.