Bob: Dancing Argentine Tango greatly improved my ballroom. Because of close embrace, there's no room for error. If I can't lead the woman to step first, there's going to be a collision. In ballroom, the man is off center from the woman. He can move his left foot forward without fear of stepping on the woman's foot. However, it's a terrible lead for the man to move before the woman.
Ballroom has prescribed steps and rhythms. Argentine doesn't have prescribed steps and rhythms and forces the man to pay more attention to the woman, e.g. knowing which foot she is standing. In ballroom, couples are on parallel feet virtually all the time so there's less need for the man to know which foot the woman is standing. Michael I danced Argentine Tango --with the Argentines ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> Subject: [Tango-L] A. Tango And Smooth Ballroom: Help Or Hinderance > Does > Argentine tango help one dance better ballroom? Does ballroom dancing > help one dance better A. tango? In other words, is there a cross-training > benefit or does one genre interfere with learning the > other? > > Let me be more specific. Smooth (or traveling) ballroom dances, such as > waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, and ballroom tango, share things in common > with A. tango, but there are profound differences as well. Is there a net > gain or a net loss in knowing one style of dance when trying to learn the > other. > > Bob _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
