The Tai-Chi Two-Person Dance-Tai Chi with a Partner

While there are currently many books onthe popular solo exercises of tai chi chuan, this is the first to detail the complete advanced tai chi sets performed with a partner. The tai chi two-peson dance comines all the tui shou, da lu, and san shou exercises of tai chi into one set.

Students are able

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to use in context the slow and graceful movements that they have learned through solo practice. While the individual exerscise emphasizes an internal observing of your balance and movements, the two-person dance combines this internal observation with an external awareness of your partner's movement and balance.

By harmonizing your movements with a partner you will develop sensitivity of feeling throughout your body. The skills of interpreting and adhering without resisitance or letting go can be developed and refined. The two-person dance is the apex of the art of tai chi.

This book came about through a fifteen-year association between the author and the renowned tai chi teacher T.T. Liang. Photographs and diagrams lead the reader step by step through the intricacies of each momement. More than just a 'how to' book, The Tai Chi Two-Person Dance explains in contemporary terms the subtle concepts and ideas underlying the movements.

Contents

Foreword by Stuart Olson
Introcuction
1 What is the tai chi two-person dance?
A little history
Tai chi with music
Practice points
Sung
The subtle skills
Tai chi dance for the martial artsit
Thhe two-person dance: Posture descriptions with photographs
Conclusion
Appendix A: Tai chi two-person dance posture list
Appendix B: Glossary of terms

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