[Callers] tips for teaching dancing the "other" role?

[Mark Pigman via Callers]

Ilove using role-neutral swings, and as Maia suggested, I think they are afabulous teaching tool to correct awkward swings during a lesson.  However, I have observed stress indicatorsfrom some dancers newish to role swapping when I have tried using a neutralswing.  It seems as though having an asymmetricalswing hold indicates that both parties are in agreement as to who will end upwhere at the end of a swing.  Even forregular role swappers, using a neutral swing delays the role decisionconcurrence from the beginning of the swing to the end, possibly making peoplelate to the next move.

Mark Pigman

Tacoma,WA


 
> Maia McCormick via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net 
>Tue Jul 5 14:06:36 PDT 2016>But, I emphasize that you're both walking (orbuzz-stepping) *forward*,
>roughlyaiming at a point over your partner's shoulder. In fact, *the
>footworkfor a swing for both roles is exactly the same!!!* A good way to
>emphasizethis might be to have participants do a gender-neutral swing
>(e.g.right hand on shoulder blade, left hand clasped with partner above
>theheads) and then change the hand position into your classic ballroom
>swing(perhaps even trying out ballroom position with person A leading,
>thenwith person B leading) and noting how the footwork stays the same.

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