One root cause of the Israeli partner dance problems

Contributed this article today to the IFD Partners group on Yahoo.

Hello IFD Partners,

Believe one root cause of our Israeli partner dance problems is that we do not know how to dance with a partner.

Getting people to rotate partners without first teaching them how to dance with a partner may not be helpful.

One result could be making people even more frustrated.

One of the reasons people have regular partners is because it is so hard to dance with different people. With a regular partner, two
people can work out some way to dance together.

With non-regular partners, a lot of the time dancing is a wrestling match. That is not enjoyable.

Think we have solved the partner dance problem with our little group in Gainesville, at least for those that are willing to learn.
We rotate partners every dance so everyone dances the same amount. We do dances more than once so everyone gets to do them. Everyone
dances, whether they know the steps or not, regardless of their skill level.

I have been working on this problem for a decade. This is a link to an article I wrote about Choreographed Partner Dancing problems
and solutions.

http://www.partnershipdancing.com/w/w102/p/partnershipdancing_com/main_article/20090106_choreographed_partner_dances.aspx

The article is from the Appendix in my book Partnership Dancing.

Shalom,
Andrew