The Fusion Framework

Pillar of Musicality

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Pillars

What is Musicality:

Musicality is the understanding of how music works. In dance, musicality is the basis for understanding how music is interrelated with movement. It helps you to understand how to dance with the music.

Music is not universal. How music works is varies across different cultures, geographical regions, historical times, instruments, genres, and other dimensions.

Musicality for American Jazz may be concretely different from musicality for bohemian polka.

However having an understanding of where musical concepts overlap helps to expand the understanding of musicality. Understanding a specific musicality is similar to understanding a language in the same family. Similar and overlapping but sometimes notably different in the details.

The purpose of Musicality

When moving with a partner it helps greatly to have a shared understanding of the inspiration. This provides shared perspective of the possibilities of movement thus keeping said movement in the awareness of possible movement of for both parties. This shows up in pretty much every partner dance style and is arguable Prescriptive Dance (see Contact Improv). Most dances dance to a specific style of music. Even Fusion that avoids a particular style has a core of certain elements (fiercely debated) in their music that one can understand and share understanding to move off of.

Why Musicality

Musicality allows us to better integrate with one of the primary inspirations of Partner Dance. The music provides structure, narrative, tone, rhythm, dynamics, energy, emotion… ect. All of which you can better understand, predict and incorporate with increased understanding of musicality.

Concepts for further exploration within Musicality include:

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