June 2012
connection

Via Paul Hughes: text from Wikipedia Dance Connection

Connection is essential to all partner dancing and is the primary means to communicate synchronized dance movement between the lead and follow.

From Ekaterina Lapaeva INSPIRATION = AWARENESS

From Ekaterina Lapaeva: INSPIRATION = AWARENESS “Dance is the loftiest, most moving, most beautiful of the arts, because it is not a mere translation or abstraction of life; it is life itself!” And...

runners

From Barry Gasson: Athletes or Artists?

The competitive dance floors of the world have become battlefields where strenuous exertion is apparent in most couples, and young men seem to think that it should look difficult and you should appear to be trying and striving. So ask yourself these questions: Are you and artist or an athlete?  What is the difference?  Does it matter?

PossibilityThinking

Possibilities and desires by Mikhail Radchenko

The task of the athlete on training to increase level of the possibilities that “the level of possibilities” appeared above “a level of desires”. Then the desirable result becomes achievable. Then the level of desires rises by new level, levels of possibilities are again higher and work on new possibilities begins.

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