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.

Lead and Follow Instruction

Was looking for a quote about dancing and came up with a number of websites with detailed techniques about Lead and Follow. Started to read through three of them.

There was quite a lot of information. The information was focused on dance skills, not patterns, which is good.

However, they were all a mish mash of ideas, none based on principles.

From Partnership Dancing™ point of view, much of the little I read was wrong.

Clearly none of these people understood what was happening. They had assembled what they considered wisdom learned from others and their own experience, but did know why things worked like they did.

With the tools from Partnership Dancing™ it is simple to go through each statement and explain why the particular claim works or does not work.