Trini wrote Hi all,
A few weeks ago, I fretted about whether folks were still teaching the man's orientation with his back toward the center of the circle. Most of the milonga workshops I have attended in recent years had the man facing the line of dance and the focus has been on traspie. A search of Youtube (even on dancers like Facundo) did not yield a lot of evidence of the man's orientation, so it was difficult for me to show my students this style of dancing. Today, though, I was pleased to find a video that clearly shows classic milonga steps being done with this orientation. To me, this is what makes milonga more milonga than tango. It's a demo, so they're traveling all over the place, but the vocabularly speaks for itself. And, of course, Geraldine's dance pedigree is well-known. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp4y7qOEkDI&feature=related Enjoy! Trini de Pittsburgh Matej Oresic from Ithica NY was the first person who taught dancing milonga in a sideways fasion, where the man was looking towards the outside of the dance floor instead of line of dance. What ever happened to Matej? _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
