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Old 12th-October-2004, 05:06 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Re: Dancing with better dancers

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Originally Posted by ChrisA
I start to worry whenever anyone uses the word "forceful" in the same sentence as "lead". There is a very fine line indeed between

- "unambiguously guiding a beginner to where she needs to be going, and resisting her tendencies to go elsewhere"

and:

- "yanking"

The former is fine, up to a point - and judging where that point is, requires care and IMHO quite a bit of sensitivity.

The latter is not at all fine.

Chris
Yes agree Chris, in my days when I had been dancing a year or so, I was quilty of the later point. I had to learn to keep it smooth (and I am still doing this to a point 4 years from when I started )
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