Ahhhhh, I think I'm getting it now.
When Filo was here last week, he said something along the lines of, when you connect through the embrace you can stop thinking about the feet, because they will just follow the embrace.
When I danced with a friend, he told me, You have to love them all, embrace them all like they are the only one.
The other day a teacher told me, when you cross in close embrace you still keep that connection. Don't open up, don't lose the contact.
I finally got it.
On Saturday, I had some lovely very connected dances in close embrace. We maintained contact and the feet (for the most part) just went where they were supposed to. And then I had a dance with a leader I'd never danced with before. There was a height issue, and he kept pulling away, breaking our contact. It was like night and day for me! I couldn't believe how much harder he was to follow (and how much worse my dancing!).
I hadn't realized that losing that connection, for even a second, is like dancing off the beat.
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