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Discover ways to understand experientially the physical and intuitive aspects of partner dancing: sensitivity, leverage, timing, coordination and positioning. This workshop will offer tools to unravel a person's natural instinct to resist force with force, instead teaching the body to yield to force and redirect it. Embracing these concepts, students will learn how to respond to external energy using techniques and exercises in the familiar dance class format. Among other things, a student will develop "listening power", the sensitivity to feel the direction and strength of a partner's intention. In that sense, the workshop becomes a contract amongst students to work together to cultivate the give and take principles of their dance styles, learning to generate, coordinate and deliver energy to one another and also how to receive and respond to energy in a dance.