Anonymous. I find much easier to understand my own movement by going to the frame of an opened door. With one hand on for support I can symulate any movement and find out where my body stops moving in relation to my foot and where the knee takes over as I collect my weight. I can do the same in Reverse. I have the frame which is verticl to check my posture and it doesn't cost a cent.

"Anonymous. I find much easier to understand my own movement by going to the frame of an opened door. With one hand on for support I can symulate any movement and find out where my body stops moving in relation to my foot and where the knee takes over as I collect my weight."

Having some external support can indeed be useful when trying to figure out the actual sequence of body positions needed in real dancing.

That is of course because some of these positions are not balanced. You can't just stand there looking in the mirror or demonstrating them to students - you can only pass through them.

And of course trying to move through these positions without a good sense of the followup action would be quite awkward - before you can surrender your weight you have to have a plan for how you will catch it again. Or something to hang onto, so that you can use your arms to control your body or hold it stationary even during those intermediate periods when proper positioning of your legs should make them unable to balance you in place.

Anonymous. So are you saying we are unbalanced and would need something to hold which we don't have whist we are dancing. For heavens sake stop the smoke screen and say right out. Yes we are unbalance, because we have nothing to hold onto like we would have if we use a table to steady us as we try to simulate a move ultra slow. Have you heard of foot pressure.

"Anonymous. So are you saying we are unbalanced and would need something to hold which we don't have whist we are dancing. For heavens sake stop the smoke screen and say right out. Yes we are unbalance, because we have nothing to hold onto like we would have if we use a table to steady us as we try to simulate a move ultra slow. Have you heard of foot pressure."

Yes, your are unbalanced.

But you can dance through the positioin quite nicely - as you have pointed out, "foot pressure" - a drive from the standing foot, can convert a simple fall into precisely the kind of horizontal motion we need while lowering. With skill we execute a soft landing on the receiving foot, and continue the progress of the body gracefull through into the next step.

You can't avoid the imbalance without making your dancing discontinous - but you can certainly learn to make use of the imbalance to power you dancing. After all, you've been doing it over fairly straight legs in order to walk since age 2 - you just have to learn to do it in the knee bend case that is outside of non-dancer's experience.