Your Role As a Lead

The idea is simple. The leads job is to initiate a movement with a clear signal and the follows job is to finish it. It is not the leads job to lead the whole move and it’s not the follows job to guess what’s coming. This concept can be applied to virtually any partner dance: bachata, hustle, zook, swing, a bit less to kizomba and samba because there’s a bit less momentum going on but definitely salsa. So what are the prerequisites for cause and effect? Well, in any partner dance you have a lead and a follow and each person needs to play their 50% in order for things to work. The lead needs to lead and the follower needs to follow. Without this separation, cause and effect won’t work and the dance will probably end up being a hot mess.