I must disagree. it's not a question of copying anybody. Most probably these two would not do the same again to the same music; but they would still respect it's PHRASING & cadences. Two or three years of memorising steps will only be counter productive & prevent you from letting yourself GO & express the FEEL of the music with only a limited vocabulary that any partner can understand: e.g. see how he got her to close on the last chord without moving his feet: tense contrast. [-OK, so it's La Miller, & she knows how to suggest things to the man without making it obvious that she is driving from the back seat....]
Andrew W. RYSER SZYMAÑSKI, 23b All Saints Road, London, W11 1HE, 07944 128 739. --- On Thu, 20/1/11, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Michael <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Using the Social dance as THE model for the student > To: "Mario" <[email protected]>, "TANGO-L" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, 20 January, 2011, 3:28 > No, Mario. What I see is you want > somebody to copy somebody else's dance so they don't have to > come up with their own. This is NOT "Dancing with the Stars" > where the pro choreographs a dance for the celebrity to > memorize. Do you really want somebody to dance the SAME > dance over and over again? > > My teacher told me, "Step side left with the woman. You're > on your left foot. What foot is the woman standing? If she's > standing on her right foot, what can you lead?" Teaching a > man how to think is more important than memorizing a > routine. Memorized routines don't work when you run out of > space. > > Michael > I danced Argentine Tango --with the Argentines > > From: Mario > > What I'm enthused about is arriving at a 'whole' > dance...from beginning to end... expressed throughout as one > whole fluid reaction to the music. I'm > comparing again to language aquisition; the difference > between studying 'parts of speech' (which doesn't work > by-the-way) and hanging into a fluent conversation... as I > see it from having just gone thru it., the BIG problem for > the 2 and 3 years student is putting it all together and > enjoying a complete dance...and at the end feeling that he > expressed a whole, complete pice of > art. Don't you see what I'm getting > at? Fluency produces fluency...you study fluency by > practicing fluency...not grammar. > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
