Do you think Kazuha has the potential to become one of kpop's top female dancers in the future?

No

Of course ballet is a very strict dance where discipline is needed

But the problem with ballet is that practicing ballet for too long restrict your possibility to learn more dances

I'm not saying it's impossible

But it's more difficult for a ballet dancer to move to another style of dancing

Compare to a hip hop dancer for example

I'll focus maily on hip hop cuz it's the only dance i learn and most of kpop dancing use more hip hop moves

First of all the rythmic in ballet and hip hop is completely different, in hip hop it's all about having the flow and feeling the beat while in ballet it's all about counting

Hip hop is much more groovy, relaxed while ballet is much more upright

Even the way to use your body is completely different, ballet is all about the lines, the shapes of your body

Which are things not very important in hip hop where it's a lot of isolation, and fluidity of your body which is the opposite of ballet

Even in the way to move, ballet is more "vertical" and trying to be light

While hip hop is more "horizontal", you're more grounded doing hip hop, you need sometimes to be more heavy on your feet

You use your hips, you bend a lot your knees etc... Which is unatural for ballet dancer

Also in hip hop you need to be stronger, your moves need to feel impactful and strong while in ballet they teach you that you move need to be graceful and light

Like i said it's not impossible to learn and improve in more hip hop focus style of dancing

But usually unlearning what you acquire for years is harder than learning a new things

And in Lesserafim choregraphy who are also more hip hop oriented you can still see that Kazuha have some leftover from ballet that looks prejudicial in her dancing

She can improve of course but unless she takes some real class and not just learning the choregraphy of her next cb she'll never be one of the top female dancer of kpop

Especially when we have in kpop female idols that spent years learning dance style more fitted for kpop like popping, hip hop etc...and have acquire more diversity through their training.

Idols like Boa, Minzy, Hyoyeon, Juun, juhyeon, bailey sok, lisa, chaeryeong and chaeyeon, etc...

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And secondly, unlearning isn't required. As a matter of fact, in Kazuha's case, she isn't unlearning. She's proactively adapting as evidenced by the fact that she still practices ballet to this day...just

She is unlearning

And that's okay it's not something bad

If you watch some interview or documentary it's okay a lot of dancer talk about having to unlearn thing that they learn for years

That are incompatible with the new style of dancing that they are trying to learn

To be able to pick up the good habit to learn a new style of dance

I don't know why you are acting like unlearning some of the things she learn in ballet to be able to pick up the good thing about the new style of dancing she's trying to learn is a bad thing

Unlearning isn't an insult

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Hip hop and ballet may seem like complete opposites (which they almost are) but there are skills that you learn in one than can better prepare you to be able to thrive more easily in the other. Something that, again, she is proactively doing.

Did i say it's only bad thing

But ballet dancer have more disadvantage in learning hip hop than let's say

A jazz dancer or a contemporary dancer cuz these dances also include some isolation moves , are very grounded and are a mix of sharp and fluid movement

So it's easier for them to transition to hip hop

Similarly a ballroom dancer for example face more con than a jazz dancer but it's easier for them than a ballet dancer

Because rythm and musicality is very strong in the ballroom culture

But they also face some con because they are very upright and very "presentation oriented" + the ballroom and hip hop culture are completely different

But ballet face more cons than most other dancers that's why i focus more on the cons that a ballet dancer have to face

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When I watch Kazuha dance, nothing is perfect about it but I still enjoy doing so because I can see little elements of her ballet roots which makes watching her a much more seamless and enjoyable experience because each moves seems connected and more than just a choreography.

Well for you cuz you're from a ballet background so you see in kazuha some of the things that you have too

So that's why her dancing style is more fitted for you and you enjoy watching her more

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And she has better flow than some of the people you mentioned. Just saying

And here it show that you're just veing delusional

First of all kazuha looks sometimes very stif when doing more grounded moves

+ A lot of her moves lack of rawness and power because it's contrary to what she learnt to do for all these years

Some of the moves she do sometimes especially with moves who requires isolation , and pop or locks feels underdevelop

And while dancing she lack some bounce sometimes

But it's okay it's not bad to accept that she still have a lot of flaws in the type of dance that are required in kpop

And it's normal she spent years training in ballet so she have a lot of things that her body consider as normal and do naturally know to unlearn to be able to adjust more naturally to more hip hop / commercial dancing , and makes her body consider this as normal

+ She didn't have a lot of time as trainee under hybe to have the time to adjust and learn a lot more dance and gain in diversity in her style of dancing

And with their schedules it's not like she had the time to go and train with profesionnal dancer to adjust

So she's basically trying to unlearn and learn new things and make her body adapt on stage

So it's okay to just accept that she still have a lot of flaws

And i'm not saying that she's not going to improve, obviously the more she perform and train the more her body will adjust

But to say that she might become one of the best dancer in kpop is a bit exaggerated

Considering the amount of good female dancer in kpop who took years of training in dancing before joining a kpop company and then kept training for years under these companies learning new dance style etc...

And already had in their skills before joining a company what kazuha is trying to learn currently