Signal with Your Body - Not a Light Lead

A number of people have mentioned to me about my policy of a "light lead" and I want to clear up what I mean.

I do not advocate a light lead. I do not like the term "lead" at all. To me the term "light lead" implies there is a range of how to lead a woman, going from light, to medium to strong. If you lead by pushing and pulling the woman then this is true.

Pushing and pulling directly affects the woman's balance. I do not advocate leading by pushing and pulling the woman, so I do not advocate light, medium or strong leads.

It is not a matter of degree. Pushing and pulling leads by coercing the woman into movement.

Partnership Dancing(tm) provides a different method of communicating that is the opposite of pushing or pulling.

In Partnership Dancing, the man does not do anything to the woman. He moves his own body and the woman moves on her own in response to how she feels the man move.

I advocate the man signaling the woman by using his body and inviting the woman to respond.