Talk:Nyantaro/@comment-172.56.32.7-20140525070511/@comment-113.22.26.172-20140608142722

Dance guy here, I posted about comparing the dancing.

First of all, these are not choreographies. They are completely improvised. And yes, i saw both videos (lol, I saw Nyantaro's videos like gazillion times). I saw Lila's performance and I was impressed with how well Lila bites Nyantaro's style, especially during Cantarella. He did the exact same moves that Nyantaro did in his numerous videos but they were simply "moves" and he didn't really "dance" the whole time throughout the song. it was just like Lila copied and pasted Nyantaro's specific moves into the dancing which I thought would be an insult to the original dancer.

Secondly, I don't really know how to explain this clearly but I didn't really mean "energy" as in the dancer's stamnia or how explosive the movements are as they can vary a lot depending on the song (you have a point there). What I really meant actually was how "outward" the dancer expresses the connection between the movements and the music. So my point in the comparison is that Nyantaro is not only sharper in terms of technique, his musicality is also better and his movements seem to be more "purposeful" and match with the layers of the music. I see that Lila hits the beat quite a few times but other than that, he seems to be simply wiggling around (not that I mean to bash his dancing skills; Lila is still a good dancer, he shouldn't try to be someone else, he should rather have a defined style of his own; at least give Nyantaro credits for the moves lol).

Source: I'm a dancer myself.