Visually Pre-Leading

Pro dancers are great at including their partner within play. Not only do they signal when play will happen: the really great dancers also find a way to communicate what they are going to do. Most of us watch pro followers instantly pick up on what a leader is doing and think that they’re psychic. … Read more

Constant Connection in west coast swing

Constant connection

You may have found that some moves have too many redirections to keep up with using one-beat leads. So, how do you lead more complicated patterns? The answer is the other main connection method: constant connection. In constant connection, the partners strive to never let the connection get all the way to neutral. The degree … Read more

One-Beat Leads Within Patterns

The previous post introduced the concept of one-beat leads in side passes. Side passes are relatively easy moves for one-beat leads because they require no direction changes. So how do we apply the one-beat lead concept to moves that do have redirections? Within patterns, the concept of one-beat leads remains the same. Before the redirection, … Read more

One-Beat Leads

Although all lead-follow dancing in WCS is based around the ideas of leverage and compression, there are many ways to implement those concepts. The two most popular connection methods are one-beat leads and constant connection. This post will focus on the fundamentals of one-beat leads. The idea of a one-beat lead is that the leader … Read more

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