Speed and Musicality | Peter and Kristina Stokkebroe

Danish trainers Peter and Kristina Stokkebroe collaborated with WDSF in creating this learning resource on musicality and speed in the Cha Cha Cha. The video was recorded in August 2012 during the GOC in Stuttgart, GER. The WDSF wishes to acknowledge the support of Peter, Kristina and the GOC organisers to the YouTraining DanceSport programme.Musicality and speed in Cha Cha Cha

[@Yochab]

Great lecture. Everything that Peter presents is built to logic. Great.

[@davidmiller4078]

Thank u both very inspiring as a beginer improver i recognise some of the elements and found the anotomical detail great cheers

[@blong206b]

Exceptional teaching and dancing. Thank you so much for posting.

[@MikkoKemppe]

Great video!!! Thanks Peter!!

[@jfa11101]

Finally found a video that is about higher dance technique

[@vleeium]

Andrew Stone, Can you please put up a video of you dancing or what you think is good dancing?

[@trinhbinh5890]

wonderfull ! I hope to see more anothers video from you !

[@Rythm123]

i like!!!

[@hazelpuerto419]

Thank u for sharing!

[@mamboking4ever]

great lecture

[@paullong1737]

"Don't you worry about a thing" by Stevie Wonder.

[@randovids]

Made sense the 2nd time I watched it. Quite helpful

[@chocolatnoir1108]

very helpfull, thank you very much! :)

[@user-dx8mk4hj5n]

thnk u

[@IX19UT8O]

Andrew is all talk and no action.

[@kvanzsagarino6366]

good;'.

[@HunterstonB]

Who disliked this video? Just about anyone with musical awareness. We have a lecture on 'musicality' that makes no mention of anticipating breaks, syncopation, polyrythm, or where and how musical phrasing changes. . . . .more proof that you have to be musically 'deaf' to be a dancesport dancer.

[@vleeium]

I want to know who disliked this video.

[@jaqenhgar6330]

i did

[@panther20111975]

I can't hear that force and speed in the music. Musicality means, you can see the music in the movements. I am sorry for that, but i know a lot of people which have more musicality dancing freely tp cha-cha-chá music whithout any choreografie. By the way, what have you done to the origanal cha-cha-chá dance?

[@HunterstonB]

That's not the issue. The issue is 90% of dancesport gymnasts can't 'hear' or identify musical structure. If you can't hear music, you can't co-ordinate your movements to it - that is 'dance'.
You can take the test if you wish - I'll give links to people doing gymnastics to a beat and people dancing to the music.
90% of people - even very high level competitors - can't tell the difference.

[@MrRichardsr]

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[@HunterstonB]

Or the music in the above is highly syncopated - off beat. The dancers are on beat. The dancers are out of contact with the music. Dancesport demands precise movements in alignment with the base tempo. Most normal latin music is syncopated and polyrhtymic - ie deliberately off tempo. The beats - and the steps cannot be, and should not be defined.

[@HunterstonB]

Or type Jack and JIll into TH-cam and consider that the Swing dancers doing it are unknown to each other and doing a dance that has 50% of the marks on musical interpretation - the couple doing this lecture are excellent gymnasts. They have no idea about dancing at all.