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Definitions: What is subjective dance?

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What does subjective dancing mean?
See below for our detailed definition.

SUBJECTIVE:

(Adjective)
Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions

DANCE:

(Noun)
A series of movements that match the speed and rhythm of a piece of music

(Verb)
Move rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps

STAGE DANCE:

(Noun)
A show involving artistic dancing

STREET DANCE:

(Noun)
A dance style that evolved outside dance studios in any available open space

SUBJECTIVE DANCE:

(Noun)
A true school dance style merging stage and street technicality and musicality skills
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SUBJECTIVE DANCING:

(Noun)
1. A fluently choreographed or improvised dance segment that includes moves from multiple dance styles and/or can not be recognized as proper representation of one specific dance style

(Verb)
1. Painting a visual picture for an audience through a mixture of technical dance movements

2. Dancing to highlight beats, off beats, and key lyrics in music while exhibiting a high I.Q. of musicality and strengths in one or more dance style(s)

3. Using a Hip-Hop based dance style when dancing to music not of Hip-Hop, Rap, Pop, Funk, or R&B origin and successfully reflecting beats, off beats, and key lyrics through movement

SUBJECTIVE DANCER:

(Noun)
A person who exhibits his/her personal interpretations of dance through self-confidence and subjective dancing

SUBJECTIVE DANCE STYLE:

A term and style labeled by dancer, choreographer, creative director, teacher, and coach, Gregg “PapiiBDS” Whitlock. Subjective Dance refers to an adept dancer using his/her personal dance skills and musicality to freely express their interpretations, emotions, and feelings when catching lyrics, beats, and off beats in music.

The term fits any scenario where it is unfair to limit a dancer’s art to one specific dance style and was developed to put a title on Coach Gregg’s style of Hip-Hop choreography, which welcomes the merging/fusion of various dance styles while bringing music to life and/or storytelling in a unique way. The art form is expressed through skillful and technical dance movements, reflects the dramatic changes in the intensity vs. subtleness of the music playing and paints pictures for the viewing audience.

Coach Gregg believes that, like a painter, dancers create art based on how they personally feel someone should move to a particular song/sound at that given moment. That piece of art is then left open to be perceived by viewers however it hits each of them, whether it paints the same picture/story the original choreographer/dancer intended or not. It’s all subjective. See Subjective Dancing


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