Russell Jonathan. The Tai Chi Two-Person Dance: Tai Chi with a Partner

North Atlantic Books, 2003. — 224 p.This centuries-old harmonizing of movements resembles a dance in which the lead switches from partner to partner with every movement, requiring participants to enter into a bodily dialogue with each other. Each movement has a specified number of beats, which aids in the correct positioning of one’s body. The book is amply illustrated with photographs of Master T. T. Liang performing the two-person dance.Jonathan Russell, "eldest" and senior student of Master T.T. Liang, has studied and taught Tai Chi for more than thirty years. He began his Tai Chi studies with Master Liang in the late sixties. Together they co-founded the Tai Chi Dance Association, setting up numerous schools in the Boston area. He currently lives in San Francisco, where he teaches, writes books, and produces videos on Tai Chi. The readers of the newspaper The San Francisco Weekly voted his Tai Chi class "Best Of" San Francisco.