BALLROOM CONNECTION, LEAD & FOLLOW, HOLD

Demonstration and explanation of how to achieve connection, lead and follow, and produce ballroom hold. Good for beginners.
By Suzie Hardt and Todd Marsden
Suzie's Studio, San Rafael, CA
www.suziestudio.com

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Thank you for this explanation.

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Note for teachers and more experienced dancers :The method of finding connection and hold in this video is for beginning social dancers, who are just beginning to find awareness of their own arms in relation to their centers and just beginning to be aware of their partner. Once awareness is developed, this pressure towards one's partner and the stiffness in one's frame, particularly on the follower's part, needs to be discarded, and a more wholistic awareness of the partnership takes it's place with a more flexible frame thatan become an extension of the movement of the couple.