Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1050617-20140528181345/@comment-25359950-20140918191950

Oh, and about catagorizing dancers by their dance style... What counts as freestyle? Because most dancers know how to freestyle some way or another and put a small solo freestyle in a few videos (like Miume and Ryo), whereas others mostly make full freetyle videos like Nyantaro. I assume some know how to freestyle but never choose to put freestyling into their videos.

And you're missing house, top rocking, waack to name a few. Hip hop style is rather different from breakdancing, locking, popping, etc. but is often used to include all of those genres. Hip hop is loose and bouncy moves, house is smooth and precise top rocking, top rocking is like footwork (from breakdancing) but standing up and therefore fast and a bit messier, waack is similar to voguing if not the same. I believe voguing and waack are the flow of poses. I'm not sure about the orgin of waack, but I do know that the term voguing comes from Vogue magazine because the poses were inspired by models. If BoutoKM's account wasn't suspended, I'd send you a video created by NND dancers that catagorizes some of these styles.

There's also that cutesy kind of dancing like Te-Yut-Te and Hello / How are you... I'm not sure what the English/romaji word for that is since I never decided to translate the kana from that BoutoKM video. And yet another completely different form of "kawaii" dancing comes from Melochin, Kimagure Prince, Bookie, SLH, Miume, Niina, *Chocolate Bomb, etc. (which all have the same ideas, but of course their dance styles are completely different in their kawaii choreographies)

And how would we classify ARSMAGNA? They incorporate cool tricks, tutting, and ballet yet are still kawaii masters.

Jazz doesn't have to be slow... Would you consider Romeo and Cinderella jazz? Because it's definitely not hip hop, waack,

I also have no idea what the name is for that sexy style dancing, for example Pomp and Circumstance/ Ifudodo, Killer Lady, Lamb, and many other Miume choreographies (I'm sorry I can't think of other sexy style dancers off the top of my head).