From.....To.....

In case you aren't familiar, it's the connection between the two that creates the movement in partner dancing. This connection comes out of tension. The stronger the tension, the more explosive the movement, the more expressive, and the more powerful. Herein lies the paradox of life: living separately and connected simultaneously. As Patrick Swayze's character so eloquently puts it: "This is my dance space, and this is your dance space." Without each partner holding his (her) own space, no tension can exist, no connection can originate. The intricate balance of being in the world and not of the world, of being effective and not affected, of dancing as a unit and independently.

The duality, the positive and the negative, the feminine and the masculine, the dark and the light create the tension. The two dancers create that upon which they delicately walk. If one falls, the other stumbles. No tension, no connection, and no expression. Just nothingness. Emptiness. Nothing being pulled by or being pulled toward. Life with its energy, with its force, with its power, with its extreme ranges of experience aborts. The dance ends, the creative process halts. And, maybe, just maybe, a complete relaxation ensues.