[Tango-L] how to lead (was 'weight change')

[Keith]

Alexis,

>From your job title, you sound like a scientist, so let's do a little 
scientific experiment to try to settle this matter. Find a fixed point 
in your house [or office] at chest height. We'll assume this is the 
connection point on the lady's chest when you dance Tango. 
Now stand in front of this point so that your own connection point 
is facing it. It's better if the fixed point is projecting forward so 
that your chest can make physical contact. Now see if you can 
change weight, from foot to foot, while maintaining that contact. 
If you can, and as her axis obviously hasn't moved, she has no 
lead to follow your weight changes.

You'll actually find it very easy and the key is rotation of the torso. 
I assume we agree that rotation of the torso about her unchanged 
axis will not lead her to make a step.

I'm not a scientist and I just made this experiment up, so please 
feel free with your corrections.

Keith, HK


 On Tue Apr 29  2:23 , Alexis Cousein  sent:

>If (or I should say when) the frame is really locked, it is impossible
>for you to do a weight change and for your partner to do none;
>by definition: a weight change means moving your centre of gravity
>relative to your support points, and if the frame is locked, by
>definition you can't have one person doing it and the other not.
>