> Sacadas are another good example of the usefulness of the open/cross > system understanding. ... From this, you can easily work out how many > different Sacadas are possible while walking outside partner, left or > right side in crossed or parallel feet.
Actually you can't. All you can work out is how many different sacadas are possible in such a system of representation. And this tells you more about the limitations of the system than it does about the possibilities in the dance. Again, sacada is a term of description, not the name of a step. In real dancing, there are countless different sacadas. These so-called systems that reduce them to a small set of discrete step types serve only the needs of the paint-by-numbers tango instructors. Dancers have no need for them at all. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
