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MDPE.16:4.2 - Balboa phrase family: carrier, articulation, and partner readability

Use the timing distinctions in the Dance profile when phrase or teaching alternatives differ in continuous movement and discrete articulation. A project can compare variants in which a salient event is related to contact onset, direction change, weight arrival, partner-readable pressure, or another justified event while keeping continuous movement visible.

A visible-footwork branch may be attractive to viewers but weak for partner readability. Another may be clear to a partner but demanding at a particular tempo. A third may work as a teaching contrast rather than a performance choice. To keep one live, the project names the dancers or teacher who can enact it, source and permission conditions, the tempo and partner range, periodic pair practice, and a dated partner-readability check. The brushes analogy supplies another representation and comparison cue; it does not make Music and Dance variants members of one set.