Re: [TANGO-L] Teachers who lead and follow

[Igor Polk <ipolk@VIRTUAR.COM>]

There are other options for a woman to affect dancing of her partner than
the actual man's role in the dance. These range from subtle methods of
affecting the man's lead to interception of the lead and direct leading.
Without changing the embrace positions. A woman leads like a woman and her
man follows like a man.

There are many ways of doing it. It can be 1) Affecting the result of the
lead, 2) Blocking the lead, and 3) Intercepting the lead (as well as
accepting it as an offer). I wish more women master it. Men, of course,
should be ready for this and willing to try.

I have experienced dances when both lead and follow at the same time. I mean
it: at the same time, not interchanging. A step is a result of 2 leads
whenever one prevails or their combined effect. And both follow the combined
lead. It is a very rough description, though, but it is the first time I am
able to give some explanation of the phenomena.

* * *
Sometimes, rarely, I do practice the follower's role. If my partner is a
man, we dance differently than a man and a woman. When I follow, I follow
like a man.

Sometimes I even got a chance to be lead by a woman. In this case I follow
her in another way. I can not say that I follow like a woman, but not in the
same way like being led by a man. I can not explain it, but I feel it.

I wonder, when other women lead other women, do they lead as a woman or as a
man?



Igor Polk

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