Lead & Follow
Lead & Follow offers a candid discussion of teamwork, collaboration, and professional development. Host Sharna Fabiano talks with educators, consultants, and professionals to explore the relational dance between leadership and followership, and how to become excellent in both roles.
Lead & Follow
Teaching Leadership and Followership in Tango Dance - Valeria Solomonoff
Valeria Solomonoff shares her experience of leading and following as a professional tango dancer and within her teaching relationships with her tango students in New York City. This is a passionate and personal interview of shared stories and provocative questions around the powerful polarities of masculinity/femininity and leading/following.
“The kind of preparation for the follower is more like a state of being, a lot will be provided by who that person is.”
“We are only recently paying massive attention to collaboration, even in education.”
“Yes, I lead the class but [the students] are the ones who provide me the opportunity to see things new, and in that sense I think that I am following them.”
Valeria Solomonoff - Broadway Tango Classes
www.bwaytango.com
Valeria Solomonoff - Professional Site
www.valetango.com
Irene Dowd, Taking Root to Fly
https://movementresearch.org/people/irene-dowd
Marta Savigliano, Tango and the Political Economy of Passion
https://dance.ucr.edu/faculty/marta-savigliano/
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Connect with your host Sharna Fabiano
https://www.sharnafabiano.com
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