Hi!
Styling is often taught as if it belongs to a particular role, body or gender.
It doesn’t.
Styling is simply the way you make a movement yours. It’s a fancy word created in social dances for one thing: SOLO dancing.
If you want to explore it without collecting twenty random arm movements, start with these four ingredients:
Timing: Can you do the movement earlier, later or more slowly?
Pathway: Can your hand, head or body travel through a different route?
Dynamics: Can the same movement be softer, sharper, heavier or more suspended?
Intention: What changes when you stop trying to make the movement “pretty” and decide what you actually want it to express?
Sometimes you don’t need more movements. You can create an enormous amount of variety by changing how you perform one movement you already know. What you might need is to understand how movement works.
MINDSET RESET
Expression does not require permission from your role.
SUMMER QUEST: MISSION 4 OF 10
Choose one styling choice you already use.
Explore it in both roles. If you don’t dance both roles yet, try it on both sides of your body. Symmetry!
Change the timing or dynamics at least once.
□ Mission completed
Current possible score: 4/10
Already inside the Academy? This is the perfect week to open Symmetry & Styling. Choose one small section and explore it on both sides before moving forward.
New here? The Academy is not designed to replace one restricted role with another. It gives you more options. It’s designed for you to have access to a full dance education.
And yes, we made the obvious shirts because apparently the world still needs the reminder:
Your arms have never asked anybody what gender they are.
Next Sunday: why learning another role is useful even if you never switch/rotate during a dance.
See you then,
Don’t forget to post your dancing rolerotation videos on social media and collab with all the Rolerotation pages around the world!
RoleRotation is something we learn, live and make visible together.
