can anyone please describe
"piture line".
I never hear of anything like this term.
This site is selling a DVD for
"piture line" instructions.

Picture lines are the almost stationary poses that advanced couples mix into their dancing - things like oversways, etc. They are of limited use outside of competition and show settings, because it's not really polite to lead someone into one if they do not know how to create that sort of shape comfortably.

The name speaks for itself.
A Picture Line. Anybody who wishes to dance to even just a medium standard should learn a Contra Check/ a Oversway/ Throwaway Oversway/ Lunge to the Left and the Right/ and a Wrong Foot Lunge/. To move into and out of these shapes requires dancing skills. But as pointed out the shapes themselves could be called stationary.

"piture line" is then a mis spelling
of "picture line" ????
or even should be : photo opportunity ?

pls excuse my dense -ness.

Shouldn't that be "please excuse my density? :)

At any rate, yes, it was a misspelling.

"Picture Lines" is a dancers' term to describe a stationary (or mostly stationary) pose, usually in ballroom styles (i.e. smooth & standard) and usually involving extension of some combination of arms, legs, back & neck, etc. The extensions are what create the "lines".

Not all poses are picture lines, which i why its a term used primarily in ballroom (much less in Latin). I suppose all picture lines are photo ops, but certainly not all photo ops are picture lines. You can look pretty good while moving.

Hmm... now that I think about it, maybe not all picture lines are photo ops. What if your throwaway oversway really sucks? Do you want anybody photographing that?

:)

Regards,
Jonathan

My teacher says as a high grade competitor they have to got to look good all the time. Even in a grand Final six couples . The judge can only look at one couple for a maximum of 15 seconds. When they look it has to look good. Semi Finals is even worse. Now we have 7.5 seconds. The judges also have to mark their score cards which brings it down even more..