Dance Interpretation of Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love"

Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey proved that matters of the heart and song are tied together when they broke out on the screen of Dirty Dancing. They did an even better job of showing how dance can deliver up feelings by artistically connecting movements with feelings from the music. The result is nothing more than sheer electric energy!

Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" portrays lots of emotion when Leona Lewis sings it, and Chelsea and Mark highlights the songs meaning with their dance interpretation on So You Think You Can Dance? If you want to get the full experience of this song, here's how to do it:

Watch Chelsea and Mark interpret "Bleeding Love." Don't listen to the song without watching this dance interpretation first. Don't even look up the song's lyrics. Just watch the dance interpretation and see what message you get from it. You may even want to want to watch it two or three times for the full effect. You'll see something new each time. Can you relate?

Read the lyrics to Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love." Next, click on the link that I've provided to actually read the words to this song. Does the meaning you extracted from Chelsea and Mark's dance interpretation come anywhere close to what you read? If not, go back and watch it again. You may even want to do this, anyway, just to immerse yourself into the meaning of the song.

Watch Leona Lewis sing "Bleeding Love." Now that you've watched the dance interpretation and read the lyrics of "Bleeding Love," watch Leona Lewis sing it and see if you don't identify much better with the feelings the song portrays. Immersion serves as key, but full immersion in different ways serves as the right key for getting the most out of any song, so be sure to pair it with other forms of expression for full enjoyment.

Dirty Dancing performance by Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey serves as the groundbreaker for movie-goers to enjoy dance and song together and to help unleash emotions, so don't forget Swayze's and Grey's valuable lesson. Carry on the practice by looking for dance interpretations to pair with the songs you hear.

Too, read the lyrics; don't just listen to them. Look for different ways a particular song is artistically expressed, whether it is picture, dance, word variation, or other types of expression. To understand differently is to understand better. Enjoy all that life and song has to offer.

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