[Tango-L] weight change

[Joe Grohens]

Floyd wrote:

> The lady must ignore the leaders independent weight changes, as the  
> leader constantly changes his weight when he doesn't want the  
> follower to. He wants the follower to change her weight only when  
> she's *led* to do so.. Certainly one dances to not let their weight  
> changes be felt.

I personally feel that the movement and direction of the man's body  
mass _is_ the lead. I think that tango men become better at conveying  
their intentions when their weight on the floor is more clearly felt  
by the tango women.

Men do not dance so that women can't feel their weight changes. It's  
the opposite. The woman is going to respond to where his weight is on  
the floor, and where and how his weight is moving.

As for women, the better dancer a woman is, the more acutely she will  
sense the man's weight on the floor. The more experience she has in  
tango, the more she will know how to respond to this sense of his  
weight.