[lostemptations5]

I don't know. This is ok if it's helpful, but reminds me of why I quit playing chess: the mystery was lost.

As I got more into chess and with the advancement of chess computers and championships, I felt there was little creativity left to have fun with the game.

So for dancing, it's literally meant to be "danced".

Of course you can figure out all the combinations and so on, but being overly analytical about it removes -- for me -- the entire reason to do it : to escape the intellectual world and do something kinesthetic.

I understand I am probably an outlier here on HN. :)

[cryptonector]

When I was a dance beginner I wanted to be more analytic about it. Surely one could write it all down and visualize and think about it with rigor! But, no. There are things that just have to be learned the hard way on the floor rather than by memorizing notation/images from a book. Dancing cannot be learned only from analysis. Professional dancers might be able to learn new dances quickly from notation, but let's not kid ourselves: professionals would have to spend some time recreating a dance on the floor, they would bring a great deal of experience that makes that task easier, and they wouldn't end up recreating the original quite the way its long-ago practitioners would see as equal. Amateurs would need quite a bit more time and guidance to recreate a dance well from notation.

[knuckleheads]

I also play and enjoy chess as well as dancing, and I do enjoy reading about and using chess engines and how championships are impacted by them. Different strokes for different folks though, obviously nobody needs notation or printed materials or anything to learn how to dance. My supposition is that more abstracted dance resources would help some people though who are being underserved by the current dance education market presently, but we will see.

[bsder]

> why I quit playing chess: the mystery was lost.

Well, the problem is that with all the online resources, you quickly learn that chess is more about blunder avoidance than any brilliant, dynamic scheme.

That takes a lot of the fun out of chess.

[lostemptations5]

Haha :))