Talk:Frame (dance)
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Are "fridge" and "bulldozer" technical terms?!!
- As I understand, they are descriptive ones, traditionally used for comparison with objects over movement of which you have little control: fridge is a stationary one, a bulldozer is a moving one. A number of exercises go like: "stand in front of the fridge..." Frankly I don't know why it couldn't be "stand in front of a wall...". Tradition (of American ballroom) maybe... In addition, chair and mannekin are used to depict passive followers. Mikkalai 15:44, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- I've danced all of the styles mentioned here, and find the analogies unhelpful and non-encyclopedic. I've rewritten the article and removed the analogy. --Spangineer[es] (háblame) 21:29, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Suggestions for improvement
Fridges are easier to push around than walls (well, in UK anyway - in US YMMV)! The trouble with talking technical is that people in different disciplines use the same words (eg 'leverage') to mean different things: most of us can agree on the behaviour of bulldozers and fridges !
Frame is the position maintained by dancers
I would say
Frame is the action of skeleton and muscles used by dancers to maintain their relative positions
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in swing dances, outward directed pressure is used to maintain the position.
As a swing dancer (well, Modern Jive & West Coast Swing ... ) that means nothing to me !
Like a spring, the further from desired body position, the greater the force should be.
seemed much better !
We are unusual in MJ, as we move together and apart regularly most of the time. Kind of an oscillating rubber frame, squashing & stretching !
Not sure if it's worth modding the page yet - it might just get re-encyclopedicified again !
I doubt very much anyone has done many of the different forms of dance in the categories listed. It seems a little arrogant to assume that because you've done one kind of Swing Dance you know them all ! MJ & WCS are completely different in technique ! --195.137.93.171 10:16, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
