[Tango-L] Who leads what who follows what

[Victor Bennetts]

If you let the follower give input into the dance, another benefit is that you can learn from her as well as having nice dances. So to take an extreme example, Maria Plazaola dances with Gavito for years knows his dance intimately. You dance with Maria Plazaola, you feel in the feedback a little of what Gavito must have felt like (for instance). But you have to actually be having a 'dance' and not just pounding the follower with a whole lot of steps, fancy or otherwise, and so full of your own ability as a leader that you cant hear what their body is telling you. I think if you are open to it, this can happen when you dance with any experienced follower, you get reflected into you the feeling of all the great leaders they have danced with. What a nice way to be remembered :-).

Victor Bennetts

> There is another way to look at it too however, even within the traditional tango sense- when the leader leads a step, he must then follow the follower to that step. So, the roles are constantly switching back and forth, lead, then follow, lead, then follow, etc. Also, the follower can ask for time to do things within her dance, and it's very good for the leader to listen for these cues, because, if you have a very satisfied follower, you will have more good dances.

>Randy F


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