Top 5 Mistakes of Followers
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Whether you're dancing salsa, bachata, or another Latin or non-Latin partner dance, social dancing is a two-person job; yet a lot of the focus of instruction and responsibility all-too-often gets placed disproportionately on leads.
Today, let's try to remedy that by giving followers an equal role in the dance - and recognizing that this comes with the burden of equal responsibility for things like timing, musical expression, and managing dance space. Ana also talks about the role of the follow (spoiler alert: it's not to magically make the moves work!) and the importance of connection over technique.
Let's start a conversation: can we make dance a more equal partnership by having follows step up?
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Yes exercises for us followers please!!! This video was amazingly helpful, thank you!!
Hi Ana,
I'd love to see more videos about how to avoid anticipating moves as a follower, and how it will contribute to a better dance (re: mistake #3). I'd also like to see more about how followers CAN contribute to the dance in ways other than styling (re: mistake #4), and how leads can encourage them to do so.
Thank you for calling out the responsibilities of the follows! I’m a late-starter in dance but was baffled by how many people think the lead has all the work and the follow just has to know what the lead wants in response. We’re a team!
I also loved how you mentioned the stages, so to speak, of a dancer’s skill. I’d love to hear a more in depth video on this! What are the most important focuses at each progressive stage and what do people focus on that isn’t as important / is shiny but not as helpful in improving?
Omg, i just found your channel and yes to everything, I agree with the mistakes and I realize I commit the first one and the third one all the time. I'd love if you could do the video with exercises for us followers. And of course, I did subscribe, I hope to see more videos soon
Yes! It would be great to see/learn exercises that would help followers.
yes for the exercises!! :D these videos are amazingggggg
Thank you so much for this video!! I really appreciate the videos that you all make. I really like your point about being spacially aware because I always try to look where I am but I feel like I also get stepped on or hit with a hand lol. I'm also definitely guilty of making those mistakes too and being reminded is really good.
I'd also love to see a video about backleading !
I am taking classes in a different style of dance, but your videos still apply very well. Thank you for posting these!
Love these videos
Thank you for sharing this! Following isn’t “just let him lead”…no I have felt there is some more “complex” as a beginner! It was intimidating and at the same time embarrassing to not be able to pick up the turns, if it is so easy! What you are saying makes sense to me now! Thank you!
Very informative and you are very knowledgable. Yes, I would like to see exercises also for followers. So glad I found this. Lynn Fabia
I LOVE your cat on the background!!!! 😊
Very good insightful video thank you.
Awesome video Ana!
Thank you!
Great video..thank you.
As a beginner I had my first social dance last night. As a leader, I made many of the beginner mistakes that you and Jeff talk about in previos videos. I had only two dances. The first lady seemed a little easier to dance with as she seemed mostly to wait for my lead. The second lady however was quite keen and energetic. I know she has only a little more experience than I do but she kept trying to anticipate some moves. I know I was far from perfect and was just concetrating on the moves rather than her but, her anticipation was making me feel like an even worse dancer. lol
Anyway I guess it's all about experience and bettering my whole, all round performance so I can better manage "back leaders" as you call it.
Hi Ana, this video is helpful and great. I reflected my dancing while partnership with others and found myself among the mistakes. If may give some input, I hope to see the video shows bad example. It would bring more obvious cases.
Yes to excersises against backleading, pretty please! :)
Great,,
Excellent comments and recommendations. Although the list is for followers, but it helps me to understands why some followers do what they did; it makes sense now, because I though it is the leads fault completely. It is good to know what the followers think and challenges they faces; this will help me to empathize and be a better/stronger leads.
Yeah. Now I don't hate myself quite as much lol.
Awesome tips! Wish you were my salsa instructor. :)
I would also love to see a video with some exercises about how to stop back leading and be more actively following :)
I would like to see exercises for followers to become actively following. Please. Thank you
Very IMPRESSIVE advice for FOLLOWER (and leaders too) - I just HOPE a lot of "followers" watch this OUTSTANDING teaching video - a lot of wOw mOments..;) - thanks a lot - hugs from Niceland
Hi, would love to watch a video suggesting exercises, I literally end up taking lead Everytime.
Please can you do a video for preventing back leading?
I would like videos on follow exercises
Exercise video please!!
Great vidéo... Great nuanced point of view... But i hate your heavy speech structure not your vidéo structure which should be even more clear as adding visual examples would be useful...i mean your slow scholar tone. Speed up when you explain or give your opinions but slow down when giving examples and crucial info.
Thanks for this vidéo... Yes more please
I'm so glad you liked the content of the video, and thank you for calling me out on my scholarly tone 😅
I tend to struggle with speaking faster while still enunciating, so I turn to slowing down. But I'm working on sounding more conversational and less lecturey while being filmed.
More videos coming soon, hopefully with more ear-pleasing diction 😉
Ana
ahaha Perfecto eso Espero!
Actually I like your speech style just as it is. Perhaps I'm missing the point, but Telling someone how to express themselves and how to speak seems somewhat rude to me, especially as you have done us a favour but putting these points across so well. Just my opinion.
@@cw424 Critics are never meant to be nice but accurate and helpful.
@@AzucarLatinDanceCompany Frankly, I enjoy your style of speaking. It's one of the main reasons I watch all of your videos. I appreciate your ability to be candid, detailed, yet warm in your delivery. The candence is also fine. If someone wants you to speak faster, they can play the video on 1.5x LOL. Yeah, don't ever change. You're an instructor I don't see the issue with having a somewhat authoritative tone which actually is quite soft in this video. Thanks for sharing such unique & helpful perspectives in Latin dance. : )