I don't know whether this applies in this situation or not, but the same movement will look different on different bodies because of the body's proportions sometimes. For example, I'm relatively short in the torso, long in the legs, and I have narrow hips. So, unless I'm doing a rather large/exaggerated drop, my hip drops tend to look fairly small and dainty. Another dancer I know who has a long torso and hips much wider than her torso has a very hard time making hip drops look anything but very big. We're doing the same movement with the same flexibility and intensity, but because of differences in our proportions, it looks very different. We've each learned how the moves look on us and our individual dance styles reflect that, but when we dance in groups, we each have to adjust if we're going to blend in.
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