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
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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
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.
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
The invitation
For less pressure on the dance partnership, seeing the act of leading as one of invitation, opens up new possibilities.
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
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.
Stretch and compression
Compression and stretch, although a term used widely in Lindy Hop, has been the basis for all my leading and following no-matter what style
Trust and confidence in partner dance
The dance partnership doesn't work without a level of trust between partners.
The key to smooth and creative leading
So, I'm about to give away the number one secret to leading in a way that flows effortlessly from one move to the other, and it's to use the
The art of following
As a follow, you follow the energy that your lead is giving you. The lead initiates a movement, and to make this a partner dance, the energ
Structure vs improvisation
I love partner dance because it brings a wonderful interplay of steps vs improvisation – structure and chaos.
Relaxed shoulders for better connection
The arms are the line of connection in partner dance. So having a relaxed arm will enable leads to send clear messages and follows to under
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