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 It's possible to become quite a good skiier especially with the new shape skiis, but at some point your going to have to turn your feet - simple as that - unless your happy doing big turns, where all you have to do is rotate your whole body to get the turns happening.
If you want to ski bumps or shorter turns you have to turn your feet. And when I say turn the feet, I mean upper body, lower body separation - just turn the feet not the upper body.
When we first started out we turned with a pole plant maybe, then twist the shoulders and the whole body towards the turn. Lots of good skiiers, intermediate skiiers too still use that mechanism to turn the skis, but its not very efficient if you just want to turn the skiis back and forth say in the bumps and the steep slopes and that kind of thing.
Now you can learn this with me folks, little hop - turn the feet - little hop turn the feet - back and forth. I'm just turning my feet - my hips are facing you and they continue to face you even though my feet move. We move the feet not the legs and what we don't do is turn the waist or the upper body, just the feet.
Here's a couple things that may make it easier to get this feeling:
first of all feet apart, second up movement, third very little edging, let the skiis slither down the hill, concentrate on turning your feet, do not turn your hips nor your upper body Sure you want to do medium radius turns, let the whole body turn, but if you want to do short turns you gotta turn your feet! And it's one of those basic skills that might take you a while to learn, but if you can I hope you have a much better time skiing slopes and bumps.
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