Blog | Partner dance

Somatic awareness and partner dance

When you're dancing an improvisational dance, you are in the moment, letting the dance be created through you. Letting your emotions and fee

No partner, no worries

Many partner dance skills are personal. The ability to connect, improve and expand your awareness in your partner dancing experience is in

Listening

Partner dancing invites us into listening. Listening with the body. What does it mean to listen? There are many sounds around all the time,

Follows need no moves

If you want to advance your dancing as a follow, and indeed pick up any partner dance quickly and easily, your job as a follow is to forget

Flowing as a follow

As a follow, your part in the partner dance is to take the energy/momentum that your partner gives you, carry it through your body and embel

Opening up creativity with solo movement

I had become so serious in doing certain steps and striving to do them the right way, to impress someone else, or even just to impress mysel

Why knowing yourself is so important

Clarity of understanding yourself will facilitate authentic communication.

What is conscious partner dancing?

Partner dancing with another person is the one of the most joyous things I have experienced.

Getting out of a dancing rut

Once our bodies have learned to do a move and we've repeated the same thing for years and years our movements fall from our conscious awaren

You dance like you

As a unique individual you have a unique style when it comes to dancing. The way you carry your body is completely unique as it is made up

Beat is the heart of the dance

The beat of the music, that's what is at the heart of the partner dance. Both partners are separate dancers dancing to the one beat togethe

Micro-dances

I love micro dances – and by micro dances I mean dances which use tiny, intricate movements. I love them because they have given me so much

More than the two of you

1 + 1 = 3 The practice of dancing together is more than just two sets of dance moves fitting together. There is that third element, that...

The invitation

For less pressure on the dance partnership, seeing the act of leading as one of invitation, opens up new possibilities.

Being and doing - practicing technique and flow

Being and doing, in dancing I see this as technique and flow. I like to see this as technique and flow rather than technique versus flow

You can dance

It is my suspicion that dance is inherently easy. Far easier than we give it credit for, and that actually moving is innate within everyone

Practicing new moves

When you see people doing amazing moves, it's the flow and grace that captures your attention. When your moves become easy to do then you f

Finding you - solo dance for partner dancers (part two)

As a practiced partner dancer it’s good to know your partner dancing but equally important to be able to free your dance from the confines o

Moving from your centre

Moving from your centre is important for leading. If you want to move your partner, clarity comes from moving your centre, not your extremi

Finding you – solo dance for partner dancers (part one)

Steps are great, but what are steps without improvisation and your interpretation of them? Improvisation is your dance.