Dealing With Partners WHo Get Rough/Excessive Force

[elisedance]

If anything is evolving in my dancing I think its the communication thing getting finer and finer.  To think that once I thought leading was about which step I had to take!!  I suspect that the force thing is really about that - a very very rudimentary level of lead-follow where the guy thinks the only way to get the woman to folllow is to make her, or the woman thinks she has to get there before he takes another step....

[Some guy]

So true Elise.  You're probably already realizing that steps (or rather, patterns) are an illusion too.  

[elisedance]

So true Elise.  You're probably already realizing that steps (or rather, patterns) are an illusion too. 

Absolutely - but they are a convenient step in the right direction...

[Some guy]

Good one!  ...or was that a really really bad one?!  They both make me laugh, so I can't tell.