First maintain your stability, then maximize your partner’s delight.

J. t. Monkey
Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read

Prompt: 17 syllables on dancing partner contact improv.

Show my work:

If you’re watching yourself and judging, watch something else.

If you’re watching something else and judging, do something.

Focus on them with enough attention to keep yourself balanced.

Keep yourself in balance then focus everything else on your partner.

Keep yourself balanced, and focus everything else on your partner.

Keep yourself on balance

Ensure you’re balanced.

Ensure your stability

Ensure your stability, then focus on making others happy.

Then focus on delighting others

Then focus all your attention on delighting others

Ensure your stability

7

Focus all other attention

8

on delighting others

6

Ensure your stability.

All other attention goes to delight others

Direct all other attention to delight others

13

Then maximize others’ delight

Direct all other focus to delight others.

17

Use all other focus to delight your partner.

Ensure your stability

Always keep stability while maximizing partner’s delight.

16

Always keep stability while maximizing your partner’s delight.

17

First maintain your stability, then maximize your partner’s delight.

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