Sometimes in dance, we use the word “subtle” if something appears to be undefined or unclear, or if we have difficulty perceiving it with our senses, when in reality its meaning is entirely the opposite. Colors, sounds and textures, among others, can escape our perception in the moment, leading us to believe that they are imperceptible, of no significance or even impossible, without taking into account that our gauge is based solely on our experiences or perceptiveness at that moment. If I only had a nickel for every time I was teaching a class and a student said, “This is very subtle”.

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- Leader: the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country.

- Follower: a person who moves or travels behind someone or something.
(Oxford dictionary)

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One rainy morning as my coffee is brewing, two drops of water slide down the kitchen window and suddenly combine to create one larger drop. My mind is flooded with questions… Are they still two drops? Can they return to their individual forms? What shape do they take in the space they occupy? Does one dominate the other? Or is each leading and following its destiny in equal parts?

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They say you never understand the meaning of silence until you visit the North Pole on a clear day with no wind.

We are accustomed to such a high level of noise pollution that I sometimes think we are incapable of noticing or feeling even a fraction of the information we receive.

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One of the hardest things for me while we were developing this dance language was understanding that we had to leave room for different interpretations, abandoning the “good” and the “bad” in favor of the “different”.

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The purpose of this blog is to post our personal, in-depth reflections on many of the aspects and concepts directly and indirectly involved in partner dancing in order to ask ourselves, where necessary, the reasons behind what we’ve learned, accepted and taught over the years. Maybe we assumed that there was only one way to do things simply because that’s what they told us or implied, or because we didn’t think to question it. That’s why we also want to ask ourselves if there exist ways of doing it better or differently.

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