Technical Technique

This weekend I went from free form Dance Meditation to a private lesson in ballroom dance, a subject rife with technique.
We discussed East Coast vs West Coast Swing.
In WCS, the technique is all upfront, necessary to do the dance at all. Since it's such a seductive dance, people learn it in spite of the trouble, and that helps their dancing across the board.
East Coast Swing is easy at first. You can mush through it, and it's okay, but then you need to learn technique to do the fancy stuff.