Chan Park does a Tuishou exercise in his teaching, but I don't feel it's very successful either for tango or taiji, but the similarity (and differences) between the two arts are intriguing; if I can ever get them down, I might write about them.
A Belgian friend had a person teaching tango in his studio, and now teaches using tango moves in sanshou. Don > Message: 10 > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:02:22 -0500 > From: "David Koucky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Tango-L] Tai Chi Dan Tien and doing things in Twos > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > At the heart of it, Coupled dancing is an agreement contest. The winner is > the one who is the best at agreeing with their partner. If we are too > insistent at "I want" part agreement will suffer. > > Philosophical Taoism holds that change is the only constant. By using a lot > of Yang, we get worn out and have to be Yin until Yin makes enough Yang to be > Yang once more. Play a little Pedro Laurenz and see what you think. > > Oddly Yin is the greater energy. Yin does not Do, it simply accomplishes. It > is a bit of a pity that leads must constantly do. We are often bound up in > the technical driving the car, and trying to think of what is next. > Following can offer the opportunity for a greater awareness of the important > parts. The trick is telling the lead about the music inside of yourself. > Words are too slow. > > Now back to Tai Chi. The two person exercises have a lead and a follow. One > person begins with an active attempt. Following is used to respond. Tai Chi > has a neutralizing movement that is used to reverse roles. I have yet to > learn how to introduce this game to dance. This type of thing is more > conflict and less agreement. If done poorly it looks like bad wrestling. > > One final question. Have you ever seen a great Miloguera who daced like she > was a subservient doormat? Some how the great women seem to be above our > masculine tomfoolery. > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
