The root of everything, how to learn dance with ADHD, teaching better, and other scrambled thoughts
"You're not shifting your weight, that's the problem," my then-girlfriend Fae told me. I assured her that I was. All the pieces, after all, were in the right places (I thought) I was checking all the boxes that I had been coached to. I could even take away the other foot and balance, to me this was proof that I was 'completing' my weight shift and my body was ending up in the proper situation. She was right, which isn't unusual. As it turns out, weight shifts for our dance involve more than lining up the requisite pieces (not everyone does) and contracting the requisite muscles (fewer do this), more than momentary balance. And weight shifts are really important! How we move from one foot to another is... pretty much the most important thing we do, since the bottom line of what we're doing is just shifting from foot to foot while holding hands with another person. One of the major elements I've spent the past two years really working on is just...