one of my thoughts about dancing

First of all i juste wanna say this thought is something i have in my mind for a long time and that i finally can put word on it...even if i'm not 100% satisfied of the way i wrote it (my english sucks a bit). So it's not The Absolute Truth but i just want to share it with other bboys to see if they have the same feeling about it or advice from them or complementation on that topic

Without talking about the performance aspect and blowups etc...but just on the Dance aspect.

What i consider as "real dancing" for me is to see the effect of a certain music on somebody's body. In that way, I'm more into Kool Herc's definition of BBOY (boy that broke something in his head listening to music than the also true other definition of a bboy that is boy that dance on the break of the record)

Usually i evaluate a bboy on how i feel when i watch him dance, the magic and the soul that emanate from his dance. The feeling i have is totally independant from difficulty, it's just a magic that happen, little details of his flavour, gossbumps that i have watching him really feeling that music. For me the music should dictate what kind of move you're gonna do, depending on how the music makes you feel...

I recently asked myself why i love so much to 90% of oldschool bboy footage than the 90% of the new stuf i see nowadays

If i think about it:

people do more complicated, complex, difficult moves now than before

People dance more than before...people do care more about music now than in the nineties

People are usually cleaner than before

So i questioned myself why do a prefer to watch old footage usually...

there is apparently no reason

It 's something I discovered little by little even if it's hard to put words on it

Maybe all those competitions make bboys work on their bboy dance almost like a work even if they do it with love. They usually practice moves again and again and give names for them and their solo during the competition is made by all thoses moves put together that they have practiced

A lot of time nowadays when people dance i feel they are executing some moves they have trained for. And when i have this feeling they EXECUTE sets or different patterns of moves to dance i feel less watching them dance.

I usually feel more watching somebody broke on the music do what their mind tell them to do even if it's not 100% clean that a good bboy executing his moves clean but more like a robot

Maybe that's the reason why .... when i watch oldschool footage i feel more SPONTANEITY and i think it's this SPONTANEITY that i miss watching new stuff, maybe that's the other reason why i love cyphers...people have less pressure (there is no winner and no looser..it's juts for the love of it so people have more opportunities to be spontaneous)

To be honest, now they have written this...i'm confused and i'm not even sure my answer is plausible and credible... but i needed to post it ;)

peace