Hello Warmup,
Awoke with permutations on "give" & "take" dancing in my mind. ...
Give weight - this from a piece by Ellen Santasiero in The Sun in 2007 reflecting on the life relevance of a dance term. To give weight is to fully trust your partner to lead the dance steps. … “After the second or third swing, my partner called out to me over the music, “Lean back! Lean back into my hand!” His hand was on the small of my back. I put my weight against it, and we flew around and around and around. It had been a long time since I’d felt such ease.
"As children, most of us played the game in which two people face each other, grip each other’s wrists, then lean back and spin around in a circle, feet close to the center. The act of leaning back and balancing each other’s weight is what makes you fly around so fast. It’s the same in a contradance: when two or more dancers hold on to each other and lean back slightly, they spin rapidly and in perfect sync. "Giving weight is what makes the dance flow and look so effortless. "When I failed to give weight, my swings fell apart, my allemandes toppled, and everyone had to work harder to dance with me. One night I danced with a man who failed to give me weight, and I felt as if I were dragging a log across the floor. When neither I nor my partner gave weight, we merely walked around each other. To dance properly you must have an opposing force.
"A dance teacher once told me that when it comes to dancing, you exist only to the extent that you give weight to your partner. I realized that I had never really given weight in my relationships. When it came to relationships, I didn’t exist."
Source: Giving Weight - The Sun Magazine
Give way.
Give a way. Letting an idea suggesting a path to try.
Giveaway.
Take on weight. Too much self-given responsibility that’s hard, thankless, and sometimes ends short of the goal.
Takeaway. The other side if giveaway.
Perhaps more will surface,
Revu2