We started by having all of you dance Waltz for us. What we noticed:
Dancing flat. Very little use of rotation in the dancing. Fix this by rotating over the standing leg a.k.a dancing the back a.k.a. dancing your sides a.k.a dancing with dynamics. Without this rotation, you aren't really dancing, you're just taking steps while touching someone else.
Position of the man's left hand and lady's right hand. Align this hand to hand connection with the lady's ear. The man's elbow should be very clearly lower than his wrist/hand. Remove the tension in the forearms... think only of placing your elbows and your hands. For Tango, the man's hand shifts more to the right to account for the lady being further into his right side; the level of the hand should not change compared to the swing dances.
Dancing with energy from your left side. Or rather, through your left elbow. This is for both the man and lady. Later on, there will be further iterations on where your energy should originate. We dance from the left side because that is the side furthest away from the body connection (so that less effort is required to make changes).
In natural turns, the person moving forward provides the drive for the couple. In reverse turns, the person moving backward provides the drive for the couple. The reasons for this are directly related to the previous point about dancing from the left side.
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