The Secret That Only the Top 10% Know…and They aren’t Talking

Last week we talked briefly about how scary it can be to let the music “in”. We dance for the pattern so much that it almost doesn’t matter what song is playing. Sure a hot jam will get more people to walk the ten feet to the floor with their partner , but once the “dancing” starts the eyes drop to our partner’s feet and the focus shifts to the last thing that matters to the top 10 couples in WCS…The Pattern!

Thats right…The very people who make their living traveling the world teaching patterns almost never have one in mind on count “1”. The fact is most of what you see on Youtube is a surprise to the people that are dancing. Of course they have their “default” patterns for when the music or the partner isn’t ready for something big to happen, but not one of them is thinking about how they are going to work in that “cool guy” or “hot chic” move they taught in the workshop. What they ARE doing is having a conversation with each other through leveraging and compressing energy in time with the music so that they can relay what they think the song is saying both to each other and to their audience. Here is a video that opened my eyes to the possibilities of lead and follow dancing.