Dance partnering

Dance partnering is dancing performed by two or more dancers (traditionally a male leader and a female follower, though forms such as Contact improvisation and Fusion dance have troubled this traditional dynamic), that strive to achieve a harmony of coordinated movements. Many forms of dance rely on the application of partnering dance techniques that facilitate coordinated movements by dancers. Dance partnering technique appears in various forms in many types of dance and is an essential part of all partner dances. Scholars of dance, including anthropologist Cynthia Novack, philosopher Ilya Vidrin, ethnomusicology David Kaminsky, cognitive scientist Michael Kimmel, among others, have written about techniques of partnering in different forms.