Let the embrace do the talking
By yy on May 15, 2008 in Social dancing, Techniques | 1 Comment
Having a good embrace is the key to being able to dance well in close embrace. Sounds like tautology, doesn’t it? But you’d be surprised at the number of people who were unaware of this and still “imagined” that they were dancing in close embrace, but that’s another story…
Here are some nice writings on the [...]
By yy on Nov 23, 2007 in Musings, Techniques | 0 Comments
It’s great to have Hsueh-tze back, for the second time this year. Currently we are about half-way through her series of workshops. As usual, she has enlightened all of us on the subtleties of close embrace and yet again highlighted some very important fundamental techniques that allow us to do just that little extra with [...]
By yy on Sep 29, 2007 in Techniques | 2 Comments
The five secrets of close embrace according to Hsueh-tze Lee.
Vertical lift.
Opposites: Lead/follow exchange; focus forward while moving backward. Waiting mutually.
Leg power to indicate intention.
Centre to centre: moving through one’s centre and stay with partner’s centre.
Maintain a comfortable embrace. After all, this is why we dance in close embrace, no?
