Action shots

street dance, originally uploaded by Dr.Yang-Toronto.

Sometimes I see "action" shots that could be posed/static. What I like about this shot is that you can clearly see that the photographer captured the dancer in motion - the space under his right arm, the shifting weight/balance on his left hand, and the position of the legs.

In spite of that - that this is an excellent action shot - it still has a feeling of stasis rather than movement. I wonder what he could have done to give it more of a sense of life and movement. Perhaps changing the depth of field, to make the background blur? Or expand the shot to include the background, while using a shallow depth of field?