Salsa lessons 4

I am always intrigued at the audacity of some of the ladies in my class when they tell me that I am leading them wrong and that I need to do it in a certain different way. I mean HOW COULD THEY? Don’t they know that it’s their fault? Of course, that thought only flashes by for an instant before being overtaken by bemusement. This must be what an elephant feels when a cat is trying to attack its foot.

The idea leads me to an interesting conclusion which I didn’t see before. Maybe there isn’t a “universal lead”. For years, I’ve chased after the holy grail of the men’s role in dancing and that is to be able to lead everyone while believing that if only I can perfect my lead, if only I can perfect it to what a perfect lead is, then I can do it. Herein lies my mistake, in which I believed the existence of an ideal.

So perhaps I need to adjust my lead and find what the perfect lead is for each lady, in the process becoming many different perfect lead myself. But if this is the truth, then there must be a perfect follower for the natural tendencies in which I normally lead.