--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Jack Dylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Jack Dylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Nuevo lead and follow and repressed teaching
> To: "Tango-L" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 2:28 PM
> Trini,
> Very true. When a lady is tipped into a Vocada, she needs
> to be able to keep her body straight so that only a horizontal force
> is exerted against the man. The man can then support this with his body
> weight and no strength is required. [The typical Gavito Lean].
On top of this, guys will take a new partner and try to lead her into a volcada
without even checking if she's comfortable with a lean first.
That's irresponsible. So we always tell our students to check first by leading
her into a bridge or a small calesita with a lean. And if she can't do that,
don't even try a volcada.
But for the woman, the other issues are 1)having a loose leg and 2)trusting her
partner. So a small step diagonally away and then back again may result in a
small volcada, which the woman could interpret as simply a cross off-axis.
>From the perspective of teaching, however, I have found it useful to teach the
>exaggerated movements to get women to loosen their free leg and develop a
>core. What I have noticed in our community recently is that the newer women
>are not taking classes but they are still getting danced with. So the women
>may get the step but they are not developing the technique and bodywork needed
>for the moves to develop naturally. So they are confusing pattern recognition
>with following. Which means the intermediate men don't get the feedback that
>they really need.
This is a new phase for our community, so we'll see how everything turns out.
Trini de Pittsburgh
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