ugh...

this is late because the never-ending snow has more or less hosed my internet connection.

1. after doing some hard thinking, i've decided to go with dancing. i thought about using three blues songs, but the truth is i don't know enough about music to pull it off. so. in particular, i think my genre will be blues dancing - blues dance moves or steps. to get even more narrow on this, i think i'm going to focus in on juke style blues, as opposed to the more ballroom style.

2. my sample pieces will be 3 relatively basic moves for juke blues: the low-down, the mess around, and the grind. (those are...illustrative names.)

3. these moves are used by social dancers, in particular blues dancers. there's some crossover between styles of dance, so i know that some other dancers will insert blues moves into their repertoire, but these moves aren't as fundamental to those dancers as they might be to blues dancers.

4. pretty important. especially because all of these moves can be done alone, or with a partner, and blues is a more freedom-oriented dance than some.

5. well, all three moves, as their names suggest, can look pretty suggestive on the dance floor. which indicates to me that this is something crucial to the genre. all of them are moves the lead can suggest to the follow, but he can't *make* the follow do them, and either partner could do them solo. the low-down and the grind both rely on the hips to make things work. two of the moves rely on firm weight changes. i could probably think of more later, but that's what i've got right now.

6. probably both, actually.