Re: Theories of lead and follow

cs_posting@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ron N. wrote:
cs_posting@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
She keeps stressing on the importance of experience in social following
to understanding following. I'll agree it's important to understanding
the majority of situations of SOCIAL following. By I don't consider it
important to understanding specific methods of lead and follow that get
the job done in all other settings. One of those would be what happens
between highly informed and practiced honed standard dancers -
especially what lets them dance at near competition ease and quality
with someone comparably skilled, but who is not their partner.

There is a skill in staying connected with a partner while reproducing
a well rehearsed dance routine. There is another in executing a
compatible step or movement when a leaders starts doing something
unexpected, perhaps even something the follower has never done
before but in the leaders opinion fits the character of the music and
the dance and the level of his partner. On seems to be more about
prediction, the other adaptation.

Which skill or mix of skills are people talking about here?

What is important for me is the skill of staying so closely coordinated
with a partner that you can trivially execute an unknown arbitrary
sequence constructed of practice-honed component actions.

(Consider the difference between playing repeate-after-me with nonsense
words made up exclusively of syllables and sounds used in your native
language, vs trying to do so for an unfamiliar language which uses
sounds you've never had to produce before)

To do that in dancing, I think that both bodies have to be in the habit
of moving for the right reasons and the right reasons only ...

That seems to be a common school of thought. For example, WCS club
dancers here seem to think that their component actions are "right"
for a dance called WCS, and other component actions are obviously
inferior. Perhaps the IS formation dancers and WCS conventions
types are actually on the same page in this respect. The leader has
in his mind some "ideal" dance prototype(s), which the partner must
then match in real-time. If she somehow accomplishes the task while
staying connected, then the guy assumes that what he did was leading,
and we call what she did following.


IMHO. YMMV.
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rhn A.T nicholson d.0.t C-o-M

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