Hello dear tango dancers, I'm one of the teachers who teach his dancers the back step. Also in my videos courses I always dance the back step.
Not as the first step of a tango, that step has always to be in the direction of the dance or to the side, but during the dance, you have to see, to feel where the other dancers are at the dance floor. It hasn't to be a big step backwards; normally the step backwards is quiet small actually. I learned the back step of all my meastros: Pepito Avellaneda, Antonio Todaro, Rodolfo Dinzel, Lampazo, Copes, Eduardo, etc etc I think one of the most important things is that we dancers can't take the back step out of our dance. That would be terrible, when we are walking (caminar) we have 3 possibilities: for-, side-, backward. The backwards step for the men (everybody is talking about the backward step, it is a FORWARDS step for the woman! so this step is very important in the expression of the dance, to dance a backwards step is a completely other sensation as a forwards step. I love the backwards step, to feel the strength of the women in walking forwards to me, years ago I danced in Milonga "Sin Rumbo" with Maria Nieves, when see walks a forwards step you can feel the force, the strength, the presents of a woman. It was a very important sensation and I would never take the backwards step out of my dance, yes we have to learn to see, to feel where the other dancers are at the dance floor, and I think that´s a job for all teachers: how to dance in a Milonga, the rules of the social dance tango. That´s as important as to teach figures, improvisation, musicality, etc. etc. Kindly regards, Ricardo "El holandés" http://www.tango-argentino.info _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
