Tango For Her wrote: > > It just seems that the two discussions, “walk, walk, > walk” and “the basic-8” are just spending a lot of > time just defending or breaking down these teaching > styles. Those teacing methods already exist and new > leaders still have nightmares when they get out to the > milongas.
Because what you have to learn is navigation and improvisation, and whether you teach using the 8CB as a coat hanger or by teaching to walk doesn't change a thing about that. Actually, the first step in teaching people not to march on regardless of anything is to teach them to listen to the music - and to act on it, rather than their own impulse to always move on. After all, tango music ain't a military march for a reason. Some music obviously lends itself to teaching this aspect of the dance better than other. I think it's a disservice to beginners to insist on *only* playing instrumental music with a very clear beat and no long arching phrases, certainly if you want to make thgem aware of the fact tango is slightly more rich than a fat Nubian slave beating the drums on a Roman trireme. And you have to teach them to fill the "stepless" time and be aware of what is happening (it's a fallacy to think that if you don't step "nothing happens", but it's not *obviously* wrong to beginners). They'll be more patient on a crowded dance floor if they're having fun in place than if they're just constantly itching to move on when they have nowhere to go. -- Alexis Cousein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Engineer/Solutions Architect SGI/Silicon Graphics -- <If I have seen further, it is by standing on reference manuals> _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
