I follow occasionally, having learned to do it when a taxi dancer. I usually only do it with a couple of lady friends who lead. They also lead other ladies and don't think anything of it. I have also double-troubled with a lady and another guy, where we would all take turns at stealing the lead.
I have danced with other chaps during Lindy classes, generally when they are going round the class and learning to follow. I haven't tended to do it socially though. When I was first learning to Lindy, I had a private lesson, together with another beginner lady, with Frankie Manning
. This wasn't an arranged thing, we were practising on our own during a lunch break at an event and Frankie walked in on us and gave us the best part of an hour's personal tuition.
I danced with him, so he could reverse lead me through certain moves, to get the feel of how they should swing! A couple of other Lindy teachers use this technique too.
Being the size of a hephalump as I am, people tend not to drop me and I find the following quite hard work -all that spinning and not anticipating
! I'm not convinced I'm terribly elegant and unlike certain Mcpeople I don't engage in cross dressing either.
