Now that I have been dancing for 3 1/2 years I can say with confidence that YES one can learn from Utube. Not without cualification however. At first seeing such a great resource I couldn't understand why sooo many were warning NOT to study the dancing on these videos ...I suspected that most of the warnings were from teachers who wanted to preserver their status and business..and to an extent this was true. I can honestly say that no close-embrace milonguero style teacher ever warned me off of this resource and this too was valuable to me. Now, I can say again honestly that it has taken me three years to understand that there is much more than what first meets the eye..in order to really appreciate what I was/am seeing. However, I am VERY grateful to have had and still have this magnificent resource to learn from. I can't advise a newcomer how to use this resourse except to say ..YES, keep looking and feeling and observing and experiencing in your own dancing in the social dance...that which you observe in the social dance videos... THE important thing is to always distinguish the social dance vidoes from the performance videos.. one can take a move here or there from the performance dance but it is in the entirety of the social dance video wherein you will get the feel for the entire dance ... the dance entegral the whole dance..not just a sequence here or there...but the music the way it is absorbed by the dancer in the context of a floor full of dancers..dancing alongside you... and then to see the real milonguero dance alone on the floor in the performance of the social dancer is another dimension altogether... nothing hidden nothing added only the feeling for the movement... one has to discover these giants of the dance for oneself... to imagine/know from your own experience what is transpireing in all three dimensions of the dance.. simple..yet profound..and then go for it..the man has got to give the woman an experience she will savor and be enthused by... the man has to give his all...at every moment of the music.. this is in the video but only seen by someone who has accumulated the necessary wins and defeats to be able to appreciate what he/she is seeing... don't give up! Never quit! it is all worth it when it does arrive in your own viscerals..in your own tripas ..in your own feelings... the dance is all about feeling the music... the videos show this but it takes time to see/experience it. adelante!
..... http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=734224171 www.youtube.com/user/nacotete www.tangoandchaos.org www.theopendoorway.org/audiovisual.html "The music makes you dance. It is so simple when one gets it. Connect with my partner and then connect with the music, let the music tell me how to move my body rather than me tell my body how to move to the music. With the right music and right partner, I am contented to have just one tanda a night" -Pedro Sanchez "Life expands or contracts in direct proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin --- _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
