As far as my memory goes, Sydney had one good workshop on the subject of embrace several years ago by Ney Melo.
At his first visit to Australia, it seems he quickly spotted Sydney dancers (especially the leaders) had fundamental difficulty in embracing.
One of the workshop, I think, was not really about embrace but he ended up expanding the whole workshop into this subject.
It was one of may great eye opening moments I have come across at various visiting teachers' workshops...
At one point he lined up men in circle position and made them close their eyes.
He placed women inside the circle.
Then he asked each woman to stand in front of a man randomly.
And asked women to embrace a man happen to be standing in front of her.
I think he advised women to embrace 'fully'...
About after 20 seconds of so, he stopped it then got women to move to different man and then repeated the process...
I was one of many men who stood and eyes closed...
And it was an incredible experience.
Something I can not explain by words to be honest.
And just for clarifying... I do not mean 'sexual'.
After 5 changes or so, he asked women to gather back in the centre of the circle and then asked men to open eyes.
When I opened my eyes, Is saw couple of dozen of women there and just smiling.
Just absolutely impossible to tell which woman embraced me first and second and third...
There was a major gap between how I 'see' the women with my eyes and the feel of the way I was embraced by 5 of them...
And Ney Melo said "So now you know, what you may be missing when you embrace ladies in poor ways"
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By the way,
I think Ney Melo was based in NY at around that time?
When he returned to Sydney for the second time, he taught more conventional ways...
But at his first year, he had some very creative method of teaching. It may be more NY than BA way? Who knows.
At least it was very effective.