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behindmirrors -> RE: D/S school - SALSA CLASSES!!! (12/12/2006 7:15:31 AM)
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I like this thread- it's probably because I love to dance. It is one of my great passions in life.
To me, learning to dance with a partner is not just about leading and following, because in certain sections of each dance, the roles may switch- women certainly get some of the initiative in the Tango! From that perspective, I see it less as a D/s sort of practice (as much as I would love to convince my Dom to dance with me...unfortunately, I think it intimidates him a bit....)
When you have danced long enough (and close enough to a partner- no looking at feet with a foot of space between you!), you learn an interesting skill- to know the person's movements and future movements before they actually make them, just by touching any part of them to any part of you (most commonly through hip-to-hip contact). For this, ballroom dances are especially intimate- to know your partner (and by proxy, many partners), just though the contact you share with them. A successful leader and follower are made by this.
To apply this to a D/s setting- it is knowing your partner well enough to anticipate their actions, and to be able to follow accordingly for the submissive, and being a reliable leader who makes sure there is always a place for the submissive partener to step and follow the Dominant partner to. To know each other so well by touch that it says more than any verbal instruction. To understand that without a follower, there is no leader; and without a leader, no follower.
Each D/s relationship is unique- and so is every dance. Personally, this is one of my favorite parts.
behindmirrors.
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