On Oct 14, 2010, at 2:04 AM, Jack Dylan wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Sandhill Crane <[email protected]> >> >> A phenomenon that I've observed at festivals in the US >> (saw it just this last weekend in Portland) is that a >> solid line forms at the edge of the floor, and the >> rest of the floor is more sparsely filled.
It's nice to have a clean outer lane. It's even nicer to also have a clean second lane. Straddling the lanes or Zig-zagging between lanes is problematic. > Some people just don't belong in the ronda, eg. beginners who > haven't yet developed the necessary skills to improvise on any > given step and others, often skilled dancers, who want to dance > more fancy figures that take up a lot of space and those who > want to dance Nuevo. > ... > Jack Beginners can do fine in the outer lane. It does depend on what they have been taught. Simple walking steps are within their control, whereas ochos and turns aren't. In my beginner classes I make sure they have the foundational vocabulary for handling the outer lane, and we repeatedly practice navigating the dance floor in the first weeks and months. Then these new dancers feel successful when they go to the dances. The intermediates are the main navigational hazard. They know too much vocabulary that they can't mange for navigation, and get stuck out in the middle like "swooping of dying tango swans who gobble up all the floor space". Some people stay intermediate for years. Tom Stermitz c: 303-725-5963 http://www.tango.org Denver, CO 80207 _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
