waltz question: legs touch during pivots

liangjz

liangjz

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When I was originally taught to do pivots in waltz, I was hold that there should be pressure between the man's leg and woman's leg at the knee or the thigh level.

Later, I was told that this was old fashioned and that pivots flow better if the only points of contact where at the sternum, ribs, and in the arms. This seems to make sense for me and it's worked for a while.

I recently had an issue in practice, however, when my partner mentioned that she had a high level instructor recently mention the thigh touching thing. What's everybody's take on this?

Doesn't the thigh touching get in the way of powering the pivots?
 
hmmm... an insider's tango joke... over my head, i'm afraid. showing my uber-newb status...
 
oh, i see... thought there was something else goin on there. gotcha. confused cuz i've got a promenade pivot in my tango routine, and then a turning rock step out of that... am seeing them as two different things.

ignore me if i'm making this too complicated.:rolleyes:
 
no. my back is in the pivot & i'm on my left foot for a slow, and my feet are open.

then on another slow, i shift my weight to my right and angle my body, left side forward.

i step forward with my left on a quick, turn on the 2nd quick, and finally close on the final slow. in the whole sequence, that's the only close.

that's not how you do it?
 
Hmmm... I took it as an AT inside joke...am having a hard time wrapping my mind around F's insight...

It's all perspective...
 
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