How To Engage Your Dance Frame | This IMPROVED My Dancing Forever as a Leader | West Coast Swing
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- For almost 2 years I struggled with Engaging my dance frame. I could implement the shape, but only for a short time... until I received some great advice on how a dance frame FEELS. Then I understood how to engage my frame while I dance... One simple drill anyone can do anywhere there is a wall.
Dancing West Coast Swing (Modern Swing) with a dance partner while you have your frame engaged really helps you communicate your movement and lead better, and as a follower it's would seem even more essential.
I hope this tip helps you as much as it has helped me.
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I'll have to try this, great share. I find Frame and Connection (as a combo) quite elusive. As an intermediated EC Swing student (lead), there is a handful of follows that I have immediate frame/connection with. I just try to use "good Lindy/Swing posture." They sit back into my hand on their backs. We become fairly locked. So my frame is dependent on the follow having a sense of sitting into my hand on their back. I don't know how to get the other follows to "just do that." I can't say too much about it to them or else it sounds like I am "teaching" them, but they miss out on what this dance is all about.
For me finding the feeling helped me quickly establish a frame. Once I felt it, I was able to engage it much more regularly to where now it's automatic.
What about for follows? Are they really supposed to be squeezing inwards like holding a beach ball?
This would be worth asking a local teacher who is a follower, but my answer till then would be yes. It's not a strong squeeze, but it gives some resistance to movement which gives greater control for a lead and is especially helpful in preps/rides etc. But definitely ask a local follower who teaches for clarification :)