Dancing can be a waste too :). The fun is in finding. Practicing irrespective of whether it directly helps your dancing or not....is a good thing. You try something...it doesnt work, still you learn!. We cannot assume that beginners are incapable of thinking. Let them listen to different teachers/ other dancers with an open mind....work at those ideas.....they will have the answers...they cannot be forever dependent on the advice of others. If you want to improve tango: you practice, practice and practice.... Alone AND with a Partner. Ofcourse you can just dance with someone [without any solitary practice]....results depend on the tolerance levels of the other. Just watch people who learnt by "just dancing", and you will see the results for yourself. Regarding someone's comment that when you practice alone, there is no "tango context": ...So what? You can always find the context by dancing, you aquire some of the *partner independent* skills you may be lacking. Whole life we have been taught the virtues of practicing, suddenly we have some revolutionary ideas:). I can certainly see the value of shocking someone into awakening. So I guess Igor's posting directed against those have the techique, but cannot dance, cannot connect with the partner. That is a different problem, may be there is a remedy....not practicing is not one of them..:) It is also true that sometimes you have someone practicing and his/her dancing has gotten worse. Remedy i think forget what you practiced and just dance. If your practiced right, the techique you learnt will kick in naturally. Please dont ask begginers to stop practicing...as it is dancing level is not getting is not getting any better; also there is a danger that this will increase average level of lazyness ....just when I want to practice something:)). . IL Igor Polk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bruno: "You are basically saying you have to practice/dance a lot and make a huge effort to understand tango's simplicity." ... "Tango is not easy at any level. But this is exactly what drives passionate persons to it, to be able to learn a bit every time you dance and immensely enjoy it as you master it more and more."
Yeah, practicing... No, dear ! Don't you think that more practicing to obtain simplicity can be waste too? When you get advanced haven't you regret about stupid things you so mindlessly dedicated your time, money and energy for? Here is an example of upcoming events in San Francisco Area: ( Just received today ) 9pm: Lesson - The Dynamic Close Embrace Turn 10pm until ?: milonga ... 3:00pm: The Leader's Ocho 4:30pm: The Follower's Sacada ... 2:30pm: The Overturned Experience 4:00pm: A Colgada Odyssey ... Another teacher is teaching: fundamental improve skills "change of direction" turns, "alterations" & the fluid changes of the embrace. Prereq: 1+ Arg Tango or competence in basic molinete turns. .. Learn lead & follow techniques for dynamic Tango Nuevo moves that include "overturned" ochos, back sacadas for followers & "off axis" turns. Prereq: at least 2 months of level 2 Arg Tango or the previous workshop. * * * Yeah, go ahead, one-year students ! Practice! I am going dancing. Argentine Tango ! Igor Polk. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
