All about the "Social" part of Dancing
I’ve written some articles about my belief that you should always treat your partner well – whether male or female. I’ve also written about how ‘taking care of a follow‘ shouldn’t mean ‘protecting’ the ‘weaker sex’. Every time the topic of same-gendered dancing comes up, there’s a consistent response: “Some things can only be expressed between a man and a woman” This also generally comes with the assumption that this man-woman relationship consists of male LEAD and female FOLLOW (not reversed).
Can women lead as well as men? Can men follow as well as women? If you haven’t seen this Ted Talk floating around your dance circuits by now, I’d invite you to watch before reading on. Writer’s Note: Trevor used to work as a professor in my university’s drama program. He was positively legendary among the students as one of the best acting professors out there. For years, I was in that program and never met him (my bad luck)… until we met accidentally one night at a Salsa club. Awesome person, and the fact that he is a professional…