What Kind Of Dancers Are The ROs? It Seems Like Lavinet And Chase Would Be The Best With Lavinet Being

What kind of dancers are the ROs? It seems like Lavinet and Chase would be the best with Lavinet being good at choreographed ballroom dances(waltz, minuet) and Chase being good at just ~grooving~

You are absolutely correct! From best to worst, it’s:

Lavinet: perfect dancer when it comes to stately dances

Chase: perfect sense of rhythm, great at ~grooving~ and making it look cool and natural

Tallys: surprisingly great and graceful at dancing, but rarely cuts loose the way she could

Red: same as Chase when he gets into it, he can look endearingly dorky when he’s just jamming out but otherwise he’s a pretty swell dancer

Riel: fine at choreographed dancing, albeit a tad stiff, but privately loathes it

Ayla: only really good at headbanging but has a natural sense of rhythm that, while it does not make her necessarily a graceful dancer, you could never call her a clumsy one either

Shery: she’s very shy about dancing so you rarely seeing her doing it beyond a little shimmy, but if she were to dance a waltz or something, she would manage it without tripping 

Trouble: a pretty bad dancer. he will step on your feet and it will hurt. he is fine when it’s just jamming out with friends but as soon as it becomes like a formal thing he freezes up and is terrible at it

Blade: this one is mixed and I’ll say tied with Trouble because they’re pretty much opposites that cancel each other out. during choreographed dances like waltzes, if you give him like five minutes to observe what everyone else is doing, he can naturally fall into step and imitate them pretty seamlessly. He’ll be pretty stiff and tense while doing it, but it’s passable and not awkward. However, if you ask him to dance naturally or just groove, he is just... wow. Like shriekably bad. So awkward and stiff and weird and robotic about it. Absolute shit. Watching him try to do it makes your insides wither. It’s. so bad.

Briony: okay. I didn’t know where to place her in this scale because her sheer passion and energy makes dancing with her really fun. but. if you actually stand back and actually observe her movements... it’s awful. she has 0 coordination and just shimmies and jumps and she’s like Elaine’s dance in Seinfeld but she’s not drunk. also she’s very clumsy and will knock stuff over or bang into people. BUT as I said, she has so much fun while doing it and just doesn’t care how she looks that it’s infectious and people like “dancing” with her. But objectively it looks really bad.

Can we take a moment to point out how just relaxed and care free Blake is in this scene? I mean just look at her dancing without a care in the world. Normally you can just tell that she feels like she has the weight of the world on her shoulder but here? Here she is genuinely enjoying herself. Am I the only one that has noticed this?

dance!

Let me just open your mind to an idea. It’s about about using chakra to walk on a vertical surface.

(And eventually dancing and cultural potential of said technique)

Since it was the first technique Kakashi taught team 7 I just brushed it off as pretty easy. Just like meh you learn the technique you got it.

But oh no the technique doesn’t end pass the “grasping” stage. Actually, once you grasp how to do it then comes the actual training.

The technique just sticks the bottom of your feet to a wall…it doesn’t hold you upright. You would have to use all your muscles in your body just to walk up and down a wall. 

Imagine the abdominal and back muscles you need to walk down a wall. How you align your shoulders could throw you off balance. Your legs would need just as much conditioning as the rest of your body. Imagine the tension in your ankles holding your entire body at a very odd angle. And then you need to hold onto that tension to walk down/up. If you waver you would probably break your ankles.  

That body conditioning isn’t “automatic”. You really would need to practice to build up that sort of physique.  

You would need to be in peak physical condition to actually pull off some of these basic techniques. Imagine other ninja admiring the physique of ninja who have mastered this technique. Imagine the contests between ninja to see who can perform and hold the most challenging poses. 

Imagine the CULTURAL potential!

Imagine those who take the technique a step further and dance. It would be incredible to see different villages having their own cultural style. Imagine the festivals. Imagine the costumes and masks (because I have a feeling ninja wouldn’t want to be the center of attention at a festival without a costume) Imagine the potential for storytelling fights and village history. 

Konoha combines the technique it with a light show to mimic fire. Different lights for different clans, characters, and effects. Imagine the dancing with fiery hoops and twirling fire. Imagine actors actually spitting fire to mimic the Uchiha clan. Crackling black lights for the Aburame clan to mimic bugs. White lights with a deafening BOOM for the Hyuga clan… Acrobatics could be used in place of trees. Just IMAGINE all the music, sounds, and effects around actors dancing around the set. Their diverse clan culture shows in the costumes as well!

Kiri incorporates mist effects (which is very convenient for switching between displays) Their shows are known for the suspense. The crowd can see the outline of monsters moving around in the mist. Characters pop out from the mist and then get grabbed back in. And of course it’s bloody as hell. 

Suna is very popular for their colored sands and body paint. Imagine two actors sparring on the ceiling - each shaking off an “aura” of colored sand. Imagine an actor getting sliced with a kunai and red sand flies from the wound. Brightly colored ribbons fly around them as they spin and jump. Imagine each actor covering themselves in something sticky so by the end of the show they’re a walking masterpiece of colors.

Iwa is known for their vivid rocky backdrops. Imagine the stories of finding hidden treasures within caves and exploration. These ninja often have the tallest settings and most breathtaking settings. Ninja scale up the rocks and fight along cliffs. It’s incredible to see their dexterity moving along uneven ground and jagged rocks. 

Kumo is known for their incredible display of swordsmanship and weather displays for their plays. Like Iwa they have rocky backdrops but their mastery of swords sets them a part in that respect. They’re amazing at mimicking weather. Imagine the snow and ice they include to decorate their scenes. Scenes can change on the dot bringing in booming thunderstorms or rolling sticky fog. And then they use actual electricity for effects. 

Amegakure sets itself a part with it’s towering structures and richly decorated “grafitti”. They’re popular for literal parkour. Characters slide out of setting windows or from sewers below. Some blend into the buildings and are only noticed when they move into action. Imagine the assassination stories they can tell. Imagine the horror of running and ninja are hidden at every possible corner. 

Imagine the body conditioning needed to pull off these shows. 

JUST IMAGINE HOW GREAT DANCING WITH CHAKRA COULD BE. 

it’s the dance they DESERVE

I love the Silvergrove ritual scene sm, you have Rayla being all graceful and controlled and then Callum almost dances off the tree