Ever wonder how to dance to dubstep?

[ironphoenix]

Answered.

5:27 video, worth fullscreening, and having the misic audible for.

Comments

[ilanikhan.livejournal.com]

It's really awesome....it's edited. Some of the slow-mo stuff is digitally slowed down, it's not just the dancer. I can only assume the super fast stuff is also digitally aided.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Edited... makes it not so impressive. Still cool, though.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

"...it's edited^{[citation needed]}."

In other words, I'm not so sure of that.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess I should have said, "if it's edited".

I would bet, though, it is a rehearsed routine.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced that it is edited... do you have a timepoint that you can single out as an example for me to look at more carefully?

[ilanikhan.livejournal.com]

right around 36-38 seconds, the video is played in reverse, look at his shirt right above his hip on your right. It shouldn't puff out like that if it's leading the movement.
Also 1:10-1:26

4:08-4:11 is the front of his shirt is acting weird.

He's still an amazing dancer, his isolation is extreme, his rythim is bang on. I'm just saying there's some (very little) editing.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

To me, it just looks like his shirt is sticking to his undershirt a bit.

Also, those spots don't seem like they really needed to be edited in... he doesn't seem to be doing anything exceptionally physics-defying right then.

*shrug* I guess we'll have to go see him do it live!

For those of us not in the know...

[writer-gal-007.livejournal.com]

.... this differs from breakdancing how?

*puzzled*

Re: For those of us not in the know...

[ilanikhan.livejournal.com]

Breakdancing is a little more acrobatic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq7SwTJChnI

Re: For those of us not in the know...

[writer-gal-007.livejournal.com]

cool. thanks for the clarification. :)

Re: For those of us not in the know...

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

What ilanikhan said; I'll add that like many kinds of dance, it uses dancers' ability to control their bodies' parts independently and together as they choose. Bellydancing, for example, does some of this too. Breaking (the term used within the art, rather than "breakdancing") is certainly related, but is not the same thing.

This also got me looking into the connection between breaking and capoeira... interesting connections.

Re: For those of us not in the know...

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that the isolation was quite impressive. And I, too, thought of the isolation in Bellydancing.

Re: For those of us not in the know...

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

There tends to be overlap and evolution in dance -- this doesn't look, to my eye, to be Breaking -- but a style that quite possibly grew/eveolved out of that.