MDPE.Application:5.5.2 - Learn the connection that failed

Start with a short passage the pair can already perform, including its ending and exit. Each participant can choose to end. Agree that practice itself is voluntary and that a stop ends the attempt. The teacher observes the whole encounter before selecting a correction.

What happened	Contribution to develop	Return to the whole
One person stopped while the other offered another figure.	Compare the cue the partner actually received with the intended finish. Demonstrate an audible or otherwise usable ending signal, then let the learner use it.	Resume a short passage and let its participant choose the ending without the teacher supplying the final cue.
Both noticed the ending, but the stopping movement pulled one person off support.	Return to the available stopping action and its entry through Application:5.4. Reduce travel or change the preceding action if that makes the halt usable.	Restore the preceding passage and check both participants’ support through the stop.
Movement ended, but a handhold drew the partner back or kept them waiting.	Practice ending the contact and making departure available. Distinguish a courteous optional offer from a continued demand.	Include release and each person’s onward action in the next complete attempt.
Both were ready to leave, but the exit was blocked by the arrangement.	Change the floor or exit provision through its organizer, using MDPE.5.	Try the exit with representative traffic; individual repetition cannot supply missing space.

Feedback names the observed failure and lets the learner retry its missing contribution. Then restore the whole passage. Change one condition that matters: continuous music, an earlier requested finish, an unfamiliar partner or another available exit. Ask the participants what they perceived and compare that with their actions. A partner who followed the teacher’s gesture has not yet shown that the participant’s own ending was usable.