Is there anywhere i can find good diagrams or pictures of correct head positions for male dancer in international standard ballroom?.
I take private lessons with a coach, but would also like to read, or study the topic (it takes all sorts!!) to improve my confidence with this aspect of my dancing.
I think it would help me to be able to visualize my head and upper body as a set of connected 'stick' drawings - my shoulders and spine as a 'T' shape and my head on this, with its own vertical axis- - and then to talk about angles of the various parts relative to each other.
This may sound very technical - but i'm a scientist/engineer by profession and would love to see or hear a description in these sort of terms.
I'm working on the artistic aspects of my dancing of course!!

twnkltoz, thanks . . I have it at home, just couldn't think of it yesterday. It's the "age" thing I suspect.

Hey, I'll be in your neck of the woods on Sunday. I have 'privates' with Yvonne Benevedies and Robert Campos. I want to do more Hustle and Swing jack 'n' jills this year, so I want to learn some funk (play), and Yvonne is the best at it!

I don't know where you can find diagrams, but look for the websites of the top couples...they usually have pictures of themselves in action. You might also look at competition tapes, if you can get them...

Vince, are you coming to the Capital Swing dance on Sunday? We're having a progressive jack-n-jill.

phil.samways,
Have you found any good diagrams or pictures to help get the head position corrected?

Let me know if you . . . I need the same for waltz. I have the posture, the proper footwork, very graceful, yet strong hands, but the head "sucks."

I sart off with it cocked and lifted properly, looking at the corner where the ceiling meets an adjoining wall, but two "1-2-3s" later I forget the head.

I too, am an engineer, and understand where you are coming from. We are very "visual." I am almost at the point of making a brace similar to the one in the movie where the Oriental young man desparately wanted to learn to waltz - yes, I forget the name of it! I'm sure you have seen it!

But, let me know if you discover anything, and I'll do the same for you if I do.

Vince, it was "Shall We Dance?"

The problem is that the head position is dynamic, so there's no single correct answer. It always depends on context.

One of these days I'll do a write-up on dance position and feature it as a dance lesson on Ballroomdancers. In the meantime, there's nothing like a good private lesson to get the job done!

Regards,
Jonathan