Carol, I competely agree with you. The more you learn any kind of dance, the easier it is to learn a new dance. And I think every dancer knows this. Makes me think that Jake is not a dancer. Either that or he's been dancing so long that he's forgotten what it was like to be a non-dancer. Considering his posts on Tango-L, I suspect it's the latter.
Keith, HK On Sun Sep 30 3:31 , Carol Shepherd sent: > >I couldn't disagree more strongly with Jake, that one is better off >learning argentine tango without previous dance experience. Training in >coordinated rhythmic body movement and experience in creating a frame >and a connection with a partner, and in communicating lead and follow, >put a new tango dancer light years ahead of someone who is inexperienced >and has no comfort with coordinated body movement and/or social dancing. > It's true that dancers get ahead of themselves and perceive >similarities between dances that aren't there, and it can be hard to >undo ingrained habits. An excellent dance teacher should know enough >about the basic structure of all the popular social dances, to know >about the differentials in frame, posture, lead and follow, style, and >vocabulary of moves, and be able to help translate for these >'cross-dancers'. > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
