Contents

• Abbreviations

• Alignments

• Argentine Tango

• Ballroom Myths and Secrets

• CBM

• CBMP

• COG

• Connection

• COS

• Curves

• Dance Positions

• Energy

• Feather Step and Finish

• Figure Details

  • Reverse Turn and other 3/8 turning figures

• Follower Uncertainty

• • Foot Pressure

• Frame

  • Promenade Position

  • Twinkles

• Glossary

• Heels

• Inertia - turns

• Inertia - sway

• Ladies Heels

• Lead And Follow

  • Followers Timing Model

  • Leaders Timing Model

• Least Action, The Lagrangian

  • Principle of Least Action

  • Clean Dance Mechanics

  • Rise and Fall Example

  • Physics Glossary

• Metronomic Swing and Sway

• Music

• Not Falling Over

• Our Feet

• Pendulum and Metronome Metaphors in Swing and Sway

  • The Pendulum vs Metronomic Metaphors

  • The Pendulum metaphor in Dancing

• Physics

• Poise

• Poise Zones

  • Zone 1_1, Zone 1_2, Zone 1_3

  • Zone 2_1, Zone 2_2, Zone 2_3

  • Zone 3_1, Zone 3_2, Zone 3_3

  • Zone 4_1, Zone 4_2, Zone 4_3

  • Zone 5_1, Zone 5_2, Zone 5_3

  • Zone 6_1, Zone 6_2, Zone 6_3

• Pressure (and 'Foot Pressure')

• Probability

  • The Improbability Of Synchronization

  • Schrodingers Follower

• Promenade Position

• Rise And Fall

  • Feather Step Example

• SBAS - Segment Based Alignment System (the precision you need)

• Schrodinger's Follower

• Side Step

• Standing

• Sway

  • Sway with No Foot Rise

  • Sway with Foot Rise

  • Biomechanics of Inertial Sway

• Technical Terms

• The Lagrangian

• Time

  • Times Bounding Box

  • Cascading Time Boxes

  • Elastic Time

  • Elastic Time Proof

  • Time Box Atomicity

• The Synchronization Paradox: Matching Energy in Partner Dance

• Torque

• Travel

  • Travel Backward

  • Travel Forwards

  • Travel to the Side

  • Curved Travel

• Turn and Rotation

  • Turn Exits and Inertia