In the Boston Blues scene (which overlaps pretty heavily with the ECS/Lindy population), many females will dance lead to other females. Females will certainly sometimes lead males, and males will sometimes lead males, especially among the better dancers.
You would get asked to dance by males who would assume you were going to dance follow, but no-one would offer to "help you out" by separating a female couple or tell you you were doing it wrong if you were dancing lead to a male. Nearly all Boston instructors at least attempt to say "lead" and "follow" when teaching rather than using gendered terms.
Yale Swing and Blues Club has buttons that say "Ambidanceterous". You would have adored it there a year or two ago; not sure what the scene is like now that they've graduated half the folks I met.
Their former prez, now in NYC, teaches lessons oriented towards breaking down traditional lead/follow distinctions; I don't know if she's shooting for role swapping within a dance or operating without either person leading or what.
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on 2010-10-30 09:08 am (UTC)You would get asked to dance by males who would assume you were going to dance follow, but no-one would offer to "help you out" by separating a female couple or tell you you were doing it wrong if you were dancing lead to a male. Nearly all Boston instructors at least attempt to say "lead" and "follow" when teaching rather than using gendered terms.
Yale Swing and Blues Club has buttons that say "Ambidanceterous". You would have adored it there a year or two ago; not sure what the scene is like now that they've graduated half the folks I met.
Their former prez, now in NYC, teaches lessons oriented towards breaking down traditional lead/follow distinctions; I don't know if she's shooting for role swapping within a dance or operating without either person leading or what.