🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <klong.68.000D3984@ucla.edu> klong@ucla.edu (Kathryn S. Long) writes:

> All kidding aside, Try _Dance, Sex, and Gender:  Signs of Identity, Dominance, 
> Defiance, and Desire_  by Judith Lynne Hanna, University of Chicago Press, 
> 1988.  Should be a good source.    (:

I'm wondering if someone who knows both ballroom and the "nightclub
dances" could comment on this: part of what I like about swing
and hustle is the enormous asymmetry in roles between leader
and follower. Ballroom dances, especially the smooth ones
look much more symmetric to me. At the very least the steps
taken much more alike than in swing, where leader and follower
can even step in drastically different rhythms.

Is my perception here mistaken?

Victor.
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