Osvaldo Zotto and Lorena Ercimoda taught here in L.A. a few years ago. In one class after presenting a pattern he would have us practice it for a minute or so to music. And he and she would go around to various couples and point out mistakes. One was tilting our heads. Osvaldo corrected the men by lifting our chins with his fingers, and pointing at his eyes and looking down to indicate that it's our eyes which should tilt, not our heads.
Yet here he is making the same mistake. It's only a slight tilt, but watch after about 40 seconds in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3zet-EKeo8 Most of the tango nuevo performers do this, except perhaps Gustavo Naveira. But so do most milongueros. Here are just a few of a couple dozen I found who do this, starting with Puppy Castello. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OxyYHZTcUI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKV_34J5Ay4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KhBuOwJPcU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSMtZzTwWI0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucLFoUHcp-g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCuObEUlmM Who does NOT do this? Professional dancers who have trained from childhood. (This does not include the Zotto brothers, who learned tango in milongas, though some of their rough edges were likely ironed out when they hooked up with women who did have that training.) They look down only rarely and then only for dramatic effect. They know even a slight head tilt can make their shoulders hunch and that plus the tilt looks bad. It also shifts their body center forward and makes it harder to dance well. Plus, they are doing choreographed performances that they have practiced dozens of times and performed hundreds of times. They KNOW to the split second where their and their partner's feet are, because they received painful bruises and cuts when they didn't. All of this is leading up to this question: How do we learn not to tilt our heads? And: Do we need to look down? If so: When? And if not, How do we learn not to? Larry de Los Angeles - novelette "Lady Death" added to http://ShapechangerTales.com ____________________________________________________________ Prices, software, charts & analysis. Click here to open your online FX trading account. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2131/fc/BLSrjnsHQoJsqFXvNMPt0jvY4VwXVMh85UxGpy3LzlHeOMsMzStoo9W5zA8/ _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
