Bertil Nestorius wrote: > This is a very interessting subjekt (the lead of the cross) even though > I find Mila and Korey fantastic dancers I don't agree 100% with how the > want their students to lead the cross. They speak on the video about > leading the spine (or center of weight) on the left or the right side > of the standing leg and in this way lead the cross or another back step. > This method is good if you have a very good sence of your body, but is > definatly not a beginner subject.
Depends on the beginner. For people who _do_ have a good sense of their body, it is much better to teach them right from the start. Don't assume all your beginners are as bad as each other. > The very most important stucture in the Tango is the Molinette (front- > side -back-side), found for the follower in every Giro.As a mather of > fact, all stucturers Tango are for the followers. I think it's far more important for a follower to be receptive to the leader's suggestion than to be thinking in terms of what "should" come next. > You find, if you break the 8-step base appart, that it also is in this > stucture(a Giro traversing in the room) atleast untill the cross. That > makes the cross nothing else as as small front step. With this in mind > it is easy to find an much easier(in sence of demand of body awarness) > way of leading the cross. Since the the cross is an front step, the > step before must be an side step (or better an open step) an hence > schould be lead with the schoulder in the same line as the feet, as > opposed the our normal forward and backward walking where the > schoulders are opposite to our feet. That makes that when I don't want > to lead the cross I lead the 4th step(or equivalent) with the > schouldes opposite to the feet. You can lead something like a cross by leading a side step followed by a crossing front step, but it is an entirely different motion, flow and look to a cross lead by guiding the centre of balance to the outside of the standing leg. I do both under different circumstances. What you describe makes the cross the result of a final pivot after the moving foot is placed, where a cross lead by guiding the centre of weight has the moving foot arrive already in the cross position. (And from a fundamental perspective, I abhor any discussion of tango technique that attempts to use the "8-step base" as a form of evidence. The 8-step base is a teaching tool, not a matter of technique.) -- Myk, in Canberra _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
