Quote Originally Posted by djtrev View Post
I can see you are not going to give up

Just by way of example.At a recent class,the teacher,a young woman who to me dancers with quite a nice style was trying to get the ladies to do something expressive with their free arm -you know the drill,arm pointing in the air,hand in a elegant pose.Thats all nothing fancy,poise,posture,frame that sort of thing.
Boy did that go down like a lead balloon.The women were very vocal with their dislike for the mere suggestion.
And the women had a point too. I always teach that there's a nice, dramatic arm movement that you'd do in competitions or cabarets - shoulder, eblow-wrist-and-hand, etc. But I also teach that the arm movement in freestyle, social dancing is just a shadow of that movement done somewhere near the tummy.