these days (and since AT 07 I think XD) I have the feeling Ayu has put on a kind of ballet dancer mode... not that she's is perfect dancer... but I've been learning ballet a lot of years and I really notice thinks like how she puts her feet curve sometimes, like a bailarina, how she walks, the movements of her arms (look the last case with GREEN AT 09 for example) and then the MAXIMUM for me, the position fo her hand! maybe it's nothing, but in PCDL and in AT 09 I've noticed a lot how she puts her hand and moves it very beautiful, like this:
and when I learned ballet my teacher said us this was really important and visualy it does a lot! It's a small thing, but doing it makes it seem more profesional ^^
to sume up... I think she is really elegant with her movements, sure she pays a lot of atention on that... and maybe she's not doing anything amazing but it does a lot that only standing and moving your hand without any purpose...
about her dancing skills... I think she has improved... some year sgo we couldn't see ayu dancing like now... I think it was with AT 2007 that I noticed she started dancing more in her concerts, maybe its only a short choreography, but I prfer that that only doing spontanious movements...
appears, talking 2 myself, real me, marionette... a lot of songs in PCDL had something... some hands movements... but I like it,... for example, in Identity, in AT 09, just before on of the chorus, shuya and ayu are shown in the scrren separetly, and there's some fast beats with only flashes of light, and she dance something there... maybe it's nothing but I liked it wasn't only kicking the air with legs and arms... XDD
so that's what I think... she's not a dancer, I don't expect her to dance, it's not her job, and a lot of singers, and even more here in the west, seems that they need to dance because is what people want to see... (so let's go to a musical them ¬¬) But ayu doesn't has to imo... but she does, and she does what she can, I won't spect her dancing a whole song, but it's nice seeing her doing something ^^