Alexis, >From your job title, you sound like a scientist, so let's do a little scientific experiment to try to settle this matter. Find a fixed point in your house [or office] at chest height. We'll assume this is the connection point on the lady's chest when you dance Tango. Now stand in front of this point so that your own connection point is facing it. It's better if the fixed point is projecting forward so that your chest can make physical contact. Now see if you can change weight, from foot to foot, while maintaining that contact. If you can, and as her axis obviously hasn't moved, she has no lead to follow your weight changes.
You'll actually find it very easy and the key is rotation of the torso. I assume we agree that rotation of the torso about her unchanged axis will not lead her to make a step. I'm not a scientist and I just made this experiment up, so please feel free with your corrections. Keith, HK On Tue Apr 29 2:23 , Alexis Cousein sent: >If (or I should say when) the frame is really locked, it is impossible >for you to do a weight change and for your partner to do none; >by definition: a weight change means moving your centre of gravity >relative to your support points, and if the frame is locked, by >definition you can't have one person doing it and the other not. > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
