What Blurred Lines model Emily Ratajkowski taught me about dance moves

Emily Ratajkowski's been my girl crush ever since I the first time I saw her dance moves in the Blurred Lines video.

Dance psychologist Dr Peter Lovatt, Psychologist Dancer, Head of the Dance Psychology Lab at the University of Hertfordshire reveals: 'Robin Thicke didn't need to strip his dancers to make them look sexy, all he had to do was ask them to dance and they would have looked beautiful.'

But why should Emily have all the fun and what would my dancing say about me?

After watching this 18-second clip of me dancing to Blurred Lines on a shoot recently, Dr Lovatt's initial thoughts were: 'Very revealing.'

Uh-oh. Am hoping that was just my outfit...

'The idea of sensory-motor coupling is picking up the music, feeling the music and moving in response to the music stimuli, which is known as the groove, and you've got it in bucket-loads,' Peter reassures me.

'Some people hear the music but they don't feel it. And what I saw in your dancing was you were just feeling the groove and it was coming through your body, which looked fantastic.'

So it looks like all those dance classes at Pineapple Studios are paying off.

But now comes the revealing part.

'What I can tell from your dancing is you're quiet a structured person in the way that you think,' says Peter, 'certainly in the way you were dancing.

'You have these elements of spontaneity, driven by the music, but you spend a lot of time dancing in a structured way and that tells me you're thinking in a structured way as well.'

Here comes the science bit:

'There are two kinds of problem solving: convergent problem solving where we try to solve puzzles where there is only on correct answer, where we're always looking for THE right answer, the right thing to do; and divergent problem solving where there are millions of right answers.

'I think you'd be very good at convergent problem solving where there is only one right answer. If you wanted to move towards the divergent problem solving route, we know that when we get people to dance in a more improvised way, it helps them to become more divergent thinkers.' 

For more on dance psychology, visit www.peterlovatt.com and follow him on Twitter @DanceDrDance

Coming soon: Dr Peter Lovatt on dance and sexual attraction 

Alison Tay

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