For this second entry in our tango series, we’ll move away from the structure of the compulsory — Argentine and Romantica — tango and move ahead into its looser, choreographed free dance interpretations, along with a quick nod or two to the now-departed original dance. And as the dance proper goes, perhaps the most useful…
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Ice Dance, Other Sites, Step Sequences
15. Ballet
It’s possible to argue that no dance genre more seriously underpins ice dance than ballet. For as much as the discipline’s social and competitive roots align with those of ballroom dance, ballet is a conventional element of figure skating education as a whole. Lines, general carriage and upper body movement translate fairly fluidly from the…
Ice Dance, Other Sites, Step Sequences
Special Topic: Choreoliteralism
Choreoliteralism is not a dance genre, per se, though it may certainly correlate with the off-ice category of lyrical dance, in its primary meaning — a balletic/jazz-rooted form illustrating lyrics equal to or over melodic line and rhythm. In other words, lyrical dance relies on a fairly literal depiction of a song’s lyrics. On the…
