Dance on Axis
Your weight should be over your legs. Your legs were designed to support you and provide you with effortless mobility. Use the power and mobility of your legs to the fullest extent when you dance.
When you're in balance and on axis, the leader can move you easily in any direction. He can pivot your freely for boleos, ochos, giros, alterations, circular drags, and other pivoting movements.
When you're leaning, you're more difficult to control. The leader will worry constantly about having you fall if he moves you in a direction that you weren't expecting. You'll feel heavy against his body, and there's a chance that you could be causing pain in his back.
(Just don't expect him to admit it. Men are supposed to be invincible!)
You can dance very close to your partner without putting any weight onto the leader's body. Just stand close to where he is standing and you'll be close. No leaning or hanging is required.
Avoid the dreaded "sleeping child" position where your head and shoulders collapse forward (as though you're about to take a nap on the leader's shoulder). This position puts a dangerous amount of strain on your back. And it makes your rear end stick out - probably not the look that you were going for.
If I could give you one suggestion that would prevent you from feeling heavy (who wants to feel heavy?), being hard to lead, being subject to falling, and crushing your leader's vertebrae, would you take it?
Well, I hope so! ;-)
Dance on axis and support your own weight. You'll feel light and maneuverable. What leader wouldn't enjoy that?
Hasta el proximo capitulo...
¡Buena suerte, amigos, y muchas gracias!
Daniel
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