Is there much couples dancing in K-pop?

[koganbot]

Posted this over on the Jukebox, where I underrated "Trouble Maker":

It took me a while to get HyunA as a dancer. What I first thought was sloppy now strikes me as having a nice flow. She's no BoA or Min (and here) when it comes to footwork or arm-and-shoulder coordination, but she's getting more at ease.

In "Trouble Maker"'s final two performances (Trouble Maker have wrapped up this round of promotions), HyunA was about 50 degrees warmer than JS.*

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I don't know if there's much couples dancing in K-pop, there being so few co-ed acts. I'll have to ask my K-pop cohort. I know there's interaction with backup dancers, and in the singer-rapper one-offs, but I doubt there's much Astaire-Rogers lovey-dovey.

*Mat and Sabina's chemistry discussion is here and here, if you missed it.

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[arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com]

"One-offs" basically sums it up. Every so often Kpop throws up some special stage pairing popular idols together, and then remember why they don't don't it so often when all of the fangirl/fanboy backlash hits.
Miss A and 2PM
Wonder Girls and 2PM in 2008
SNSD and 2PM in 2009
Wonder Girls and Big Bang, doing swing dance together at 3:35
SNSD and Shinee, but only for the first minute or so. It was a dance bridge between their promoted songs.
f(x)'s Victoria and part of Super Junior
Infinite and Rainbow
Dal Shabet and B1A4, which produced so much fan backlash they had to issue a message asking the feuding to stop.

The major exception to the backlash are the participants in the fake-dating show "We Got Married." Then the fans seem to eat it up.
f(x)'s Victoria and 2PM's Nickhun
2AM's Jokwon and Brown Eyed Girls's Gain were such a popular couple that they released a duet. Almost a year after their final episode of WGM, they did a cover of Troublemaker.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

I think they do it quite often on these special occasions precisely because fangirls scream in disgust / joy at the same time. That's why they try to re-create the TOP/Hyori spectacle all the time. Extending that to a promotional period or career is riskier and more difficult. Doesn't help that some of the idol co-ed group attempts have been so very terrible, of course. 'Trouble Maker' is a jam and one of the bigger hits of 2011 and I wouldn't be surprised if they put out another single as a unit in a year or so.

[arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com]

All of the Wonder Girls and Big Bang stages seemed to be well received, oddly enough. Then again, I haven't seen much backlash for any of the JYPEnt collaborations. WG/BB also happened at the start of the idol movement, and I remember that when i first got into Kpop that one of the things that set them apart from Jpop was the much higher amount of male/female idol interaction. SNSD doesn't have any performance collaborations with DBSK, but they did that series of commercials with romantic storylines.