Dear Curl :
A!HA! I've ever also learned Tai-chi before.
It's a traditional chinese Kung-Fu. It is a valuable part of our culture.
I've ever heard one amateur internal dancer talk about it in taiwan in internet. But that paragraphy not talked about "breathing and dancing" but balance and weight.
I am sorry it'd written in tranditional chinese, otherwise I can post it for you.
its major ideas are, Rumba or Cha-cha. The weight movement, arm, hip and body motion are keep constant with Tai-Chi motion (not breathing) and with the posture requirment of Tai-Chi.
Putting weight on single standing feet, and the other feet is free or light touching ground. Based on standing leg, you can moveing, turing, of course in order to keep balance, then your torse, arm and muscial will do something (like CBM) to maintain balance point. To sum up, all the weight of your body(from head to leg) is in a line and this line is vertical to ground.
Another idea is Tai-Chi said our arm was moveing by itself but with torse motion, it's hard to understand. Anyway, high level Tai-Chi is "no motion but waist action". Every power is orgianl from leg, base on waist, show on arm and torse.
Maybe it can give you some idea.
John
