I've seen enough people complain about it to warrant a journal giving my two cents.
(realize i am saying this with the acknowledgement of dubstep isn't everyone's cup of tea)

First off in the panels i host/help host i talk about music theory and movement theory. I talk about having the option of choosing which part of a song you want to dance to. The bass, snare, hihat, lyrics, melody, etc. i also talk about time signatures, syncopation, and off/broken beats.

Well as a dancer i'm going to say nothing gives more of a challenge than dubstep to dance to. If you breakdown a dubstep song into the mind of a dancer or wanting to dance to it it will present some unique challenges no other genre can do.

take this song for example!



For those of you not musically inclined this song follows what's called an 8 bar progression. (I could go off on a musical theory tangent explaining what that actually means but that's for another day) But long story short it follows the rules of many other songs out there musically. But what makes it different than any other genre in a dancer's mind is the segment selection in which the dancer in going to dance to.

Mostly dancers dance to the most prominent part of the song however a dancer that chooses a less prominent part of the song will enhance the attention to whichever part of the song they're dancing to. Now for most of us to nearly all of us the most prominent parts of dubstep is the "wobble" which in many different cases can bring out many types of movement. That all falls down to the ears of the dancer and what they think is appropriate for the noise. Some might think the sound resembles a machine so they'll move like one. some may thing it sounds like a rolling wave it's all about perception.

But the cool unique thing about dubstep is how 'colorful' the wobbles can be. there will bee cool tones, hot tones, long tones, short tones, choppy tones, harsh tones, soft tones, grimy tones, clean tones, and so much more there are so many elements that can potentially be in a dubstep song that the dancer literally has a buffet of move options based off of perception. That's one of the reasons why it's a challenging thing as well. When you're presented with all these sometimes you kinda have to rely on instinct. But no other genre really uniformly does that.

When you put together all the elements of dubstep with a little bit of practice and some killer songs you get



and



and



see what i mean ;3c

(and to think yall thought i was just some dumb wigglin' dingo :P i know my theory and such!)