I went to a workshop given by Andrew Sinkerson yesterday.
Who would like to know how to find the correct position of the body weight on a backward walk.

I would like to know. Explain it to me.

Jax. Can you think of anything so easy. Just run backwards. Then do your Backward Walks without losing that position. Good luck.

"I went to a workshop given by Andrew Sinkerson yesterday.
Who would like to know how to find the correct position of the body weight on a backward walk."

There is no such thing as a specific correct position, because the body weight is in constant motion throughout a walk. There is a different correct position for each instant during the process of the walk. Anyone who told you otherwise, regardless of name, is starting with a drastic oversimplification for beginners just getting started on the process of understanding dancing. You will need to master that simplification, but you will also need to realize that it is not the whole story, and will only last your for a year or so before you need a more advanced and truthful understanding.

Anonymous. I can tell from your previous writting that you fall into your steps. Heres another for you. get to the end of step five as a man on a Spin Turn in the Waltz. Take your foot off the floor. If you can you are balanced as you should be, if you can't you are not balanced. No need to stop, make sure the foot comes down else you'll fall.We had to lift the foot so that the shin was level with the floor before we put it down. Then there was more. I took a paper and pencil with me thinking we would take notes. We never sat down for the whole of the workshop. We were on the go the whole time. As was Andrew. Todays dancer is completely balanced at all times.

Todays dancer is completely balanced at all times.


Then "today's dancer" looks like crap.

You won't see balance in the finals, except on the peaks of rise and in the tango, which is where it belongs.

"Anonymous. I can tell from your previous writting that you fall into your steps."

No, I fall smoothly and elegantly THROUGH the steps, not onto them. And I get commentes such as "you never put me off balance at any point in that". Which of course is patently false, but the intention is obvious - I had never forced this teacher to deviate one bit from the proper progress of the body weight. Despite the fact that we were off balance the majority of the time (as is necessary), it never had the alarming feeling that would cause concern - because it was perfectly coordinated, fully flighted dancing.

"Heres another for you. get to the end of step five as a man on a Spin Turn in the Waltz. Take your foot off the floor. If you can you are balanced as you should be"

That is a (defacto if not official) peak of rise, so, at least for the less turned version of the spin turn, is the point in the progress of that figure in which you should be very briefly balanced.

Anonymos. I think you have an unfortunate choice of words here. I would in future take fall from my vocabulary when writting about dancing.
Moving from a higher to a lower level typicaly without controll

Anonymous. I dont know of any dance teacher that I have ever met who doesn't say that we move from foot to foot being perfectly balanced at all times. We most certainly never fall. We lower.

"Anonymous. I dont know of any dance teacher that I have ever met who doesn't say that we move from foot to foot being perfectly balanced at all times."

Oh, and how do you explain that Marcus Hilton imbalance to imbalance comment that someone posted recently?

No top professional would tolerate bad aim that forced undesired movement. But none would tolerate the kind of awkward choppiness that would come from literally maintaining balance either. Some of them have enough verbal-physical understanding to accuratley describe this, while others merely communicate their feeling - they don't feel off balance, because they don't feel like they've lost something they should have.

But the physical fact is that they are off balance a lot of the time.