Frankly, with many teachers teaching step combinations, I often stand there in the class, thinking:"Thank God, I am not a man. I would never be able to remember all that." As a woman, as long as you have good technique, you can leave almost all the memorising up to the man, and that's why so many women "can do it", and the men cannot. Men not only have to learn their own steps, but the leads as well. .. ..the above paragraph from a previous thread is my guess as to 'why' the problem. More 'complicated' means more and endless classes...it serves the 'teacher' well and most women too...because it seems to me that it is more the woman who is gaa-gaa to be taught more steps and patterns.. sorry ladies. ..and that is why there are more women in the advanced classes. I believe I'm telling it like it is.
...the answer is to teach the social dance as something simple but with good fundamentals of posture, walk, balance, etc.. As we have seen in the social dance of traditional argentine tango, the average milonguero doesn't use more than a handfull of moves, he just makes those few better and better...if the guy was taught well for a dozen classes and turned loose with a limited but effective repretoir, he could too, go on to perfect his own dance... and get a lot of dancing done instead of classes. of course we are talking here of the traditional dance...when it comes to Nuevo, also THE favorite of the ladies, it becomes a different dance altogether.... I have no suggestions for that dance. ... http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=734224171 www.youtube.com/user/nacotete www.theopendoorway.org/audiovisual.html "Life expands or contracts in direct proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin "The ultimate aim for every human being is to be immensely creative"-Norm.Mailer _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
