That might sound like a sweeping statement, but allow me to explain. There are essentially two parts to this explaination. You may have heard me saying "Keep your nose over your toes and you won't step on hers." When you walk forward you want to keep your weight in the balls of your feet and your body slightly in advance of your feet. In other wrods we don't want to stick our legs and feet out before we make and advance through our body, which will lead the lady.
The lady also has an important role to play when going back. Once you feel a lead through the man's body start to take your leg back, but think woring underneath your body so as to keep the closeness between you and your partner. Remember to extend back from the top of your leg (which starts as high as the top of your hip). You want to feel as though you are going forward by extending over the knee of your standing leg and drawing back from the top of your moving leg - this action creates a beatuful long line and the appearence of a "big" sweeping step. This is what creates the long gliding strides seen in high quality dancing - and not trying to take big steps!
As a lady dancer you want to imagine yourself as a trolley that will only move when a gentle force is applied. The mans job is to lead you through his body and its your job to respond by moving at his pace without separating too much in the hip area. Try to imagine that your legs are always working underneath and behind your body, otherwise you open yourself to bruised toes and fights with your partner.
Hope this helps,
John
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The John Hamman School of ballroom dancing is really good.
Ballroom dancing basically means any couples dance. Although today it would be considered just ten dances such as Tango, Foxtrot, Waltz, the Latin dances and Jive. And i want to be a part of this school.:)
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The Ballroom dances consist of the Waltzes (fast and slow), the Tango, the Slow Foxtrot and the Quickstep. These have evolved over several hundred years from the dancing done originally in the royal courts of Europe, and still to this day have a regal upright deportment. These dances progress around the room anticlockwise.
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Great post..!
Actually, I adore Salsa dance.
Dancing is recreational and entertaining. It creates a social life for us, while affording us the opportunity to make new friends. Overall, proper technique is not difficult to learn, but it requires specific instruction. Once you master it, however, your dancing abilities will improve phenomenally.
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