There are many elements that make movement beautiful, such as line and intention and clarity. We have studied and analyzed this subject at length. It's fascinating.

But the single most important element is what we call "body integrity". Body integrity, the way we use the words, means the active engagement of your center in your movement as well as making that the source of your movement.

Moving from your center is a hard thing for many people to understand and learn. In this video and in others to come, we give exercises to help.

The bottom line is: you should want this. Do what you need to learn to move this way and it will hugely improve how you look when you dance.

Not only do we want you to move the body from your center, we also want you to move the body as one whole. For example, when we talk about walking, this isn't just that you put a leg forward, it's that your center drives the leg forward. AND the contra body motion and the action through the upper and lower torso integrates the whole of the body. We would assert that even a thing as small as the alignment of your head is the difference between a gold medal and no medal.