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Thursday, 05 February 2009

Meg's Academy of How to Move Good and Do Other Things Good Too.


So back in the day I asked Drew what 'style' was. In our conversation, it came to be negatively defined. It wasn't a list of tricks that you did that others didn't do. That wasn't style. It wasn't the sequencing of the tricks or the transitions, it wasn't what movement you did 'underneath' the spinning. Well that doesn't leave much I thought. I couldn't figure out what was left remaining to 'be' style. If two people were doing the exact same thing, spinning and movement wise, surely they would have the same 'style'? Well nope.

Style isn't what your doing, it's how your doing it. Even deeper than that, it's who you are. You can't get away from it, unless of course, you study dance for ten years.

What is style then? For me at least, it's like that old jazz anecdote... how can a jazz player sound constantly lazy but never get out of time with the song? Well they consistently play a fraction after when they are supposed to, but always the same fraction of time, still keeping pace with the song.

How does this apply to spinning? Well in my view, part of the beauty of spinning, and part of some spinners good style is to be equally 'slow/lazy' so they consistently move just a fraction slower than they should.

Yes they're always in control, with good footwork and extremely smooth spinning. But there's something else in their movement that makes it their own. Some of this is a definition of grace, some of it is going towards style I guess... It's tough to delineate the two for me. I find it's only the graceful spinners that I want to watch...

Oh tangent time...


Yeah is these videos it's hard to distinguish the beauty in the movement alone, cos it's video and not real life... Some of them I think have better movement than others... but it's very hard to tell on video.


Thomas: Cares a lot about poi and has very clean considered body movement. Especially in the Levistick video, cos they do nice editing.
http://www.eldsjal.org/movies/salza/levistick.mov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrN7RUjpjPs

Shion: Shion has an amazingly deep squat that he is constantly using. He also controls his upper body a lot leading to his distinctive style of contact staff. More apparent in the second video. But the first shows his passion for staff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSkwkz5bNN4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPtPgEJi4Bk

Alex: A background in all martial arts and theatre has left this guy with awesome movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpkjGmpvLng

Malaman: Smooth, great footwork, great control, very french.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQDF8s2TECU

Banyan: Banyan's style is heavily influenced by his props and how he holds them. I think he keeps a tight grip on his props and this forces him to use his body more in his movements, rather than just his arms and wrists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZv0lzfc3Uo

Club guy: Club guy here is awesome. His movement isn't so readily apparent as good, but the way he makes his clubs move is absolutely beautiful. He also has some really well thought out transitions and tricks in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRbeKGxliHM

Nimi: Nimi, Nimi, Nimi. I love watching Nimi, It's hard to analyse because I'm constantly being distracted by the beauty of the movements he's doing and the difficulty of the tricks he does. He really uses his other arm to frame the ball and it's really magical... I love it. He seems to have more grace in any one joint than I have in my entire body.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72L8tWViVls

Adrian Mondot: The possible king of the beautiful movement jugglers. He's controlled, graceful, he moves around and does tricks which compliment his movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZTYRTaX0_0

c2laballe: This guy has good movement too. It's hard to tell in these videos of juggling, but if you saw him in real life you'd know. He's really passionate about adding movement to his juggling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSt4Bn5hzTo

Emiliano Another dancer / juggler. He does some amazing ground work in this video and other beautiful shenanigans. Much better in person also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt1SGceLm2Q

Linda: Dance + Contact Staff, some beautiful stuff, shame about the skirt, can't see the footwork.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7lHjo_cOvU



Yeah I can't get over this guy... This guy makes me crazy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5QtCMozYX8

windstyle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFmR3xjlWOo

Bishop is the MAN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e61M84h09e4

This guy just has really really good movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwPGiRryI30


Some really nice movement in this too, occasionally.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6oek7_contact-juggling-convention-saint-a_creation

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