| drops and seducers
I adore doing drops and seducers, and the more and varied selection that my dancing partner can throw in to the dance, the wider my grin will be at the end.
From a lady's point of view, as Franck and others have mentioned, it is absolutely vital that they are signalled properly or an accident is bound to happen somewhere along the line. The one signal that no-one seems to have mentioned yet is probably the clearest and simplest to understand, especially if it is given by a partner with whom I dance regularly. By this, I mean a verbal warning that a drop is coming up.
This can be particularly useful in the case of moves such as the neckbreak drop - this is signalled and starts just the same as a neckbreak, but in order to achieve the drop at the end the lady has to make quarter of a turn more than she would if she were just doing a neckbreak. The only effective way of telling her to keep spinning that little bit more is to warn her before she starts, otherwise it is just confusion all round.
Despite the fact that I love drops so much, I will only do them with someone whom I know will do them well and correctly. There is one dancer whom I see occasionally where I dance and he is an absolute menace to all of womankind. His idea of a good drop is to have the lady's head virtually on the floor, her back over his knee somewhere and both of her feet up in the air at waist height or even higher.
I am terrified of what might happen to me if I were to end up dancing with him, so now I head rapidly in the opposite direction when I see him coming to save us both from the embarrasment of me refusing to dance with him. I am sure that he wouldn't recognise that description of himself, but anyone who has ever seen him dance will know who I mean!
Josie_D |