On 22/06/2011 21:48, [email protected] wrote: > Jack > Perhaps you didn't understand the questions. > > 1. how can you dance with balance, on axis and with good posture if your > head is looking down at the floor?
My take on it (given that my previous post seems to have been ambiguous enough to attract invectives and protestations) is that it's largely irrelevant, which means... > 2. Can anyone explain the benefit of dancing this way? ...that there's also little benefit (and in some embraces looks plainly daft). In some embraces it doesn't look too daft unless you mean you're looking on the floor *right below you*. Taken at extremes, there's only one infinitesimally small position of the head that is neither looking up nor looking down, so you're either looking up or down in some small fashion with probability 1. Looking down too much can look stupid, but so can looking up at the ceiling. There is one danger in "looking down", and that is when it's coupled with hiding your centre, making it impossible to lead "desde el alma". But I've seen people who were leading with the chest even though they were looking down in a rather ungainly way. Looking at some videos, I seem to be looking at the height of my partner's face in open embrace some of the time, which means looking down if the follower is a lot smaller than I am. At other times I look level. It also seems to depend slightly on navigation when there are lots of people around. In close embrace I either look level or have my head arranged so that it touches the followers, with the tilt depending on the height of the partner and the exact embrace (which is negotiated - it seems I'm not particularly fussy in enforcing the One Embrace to Rule Them All with all the followers I dance with). Go figure...looking at it, I don't think there is, again, an immutable Correct Way that requires people to reach for the pitchforks to enforce it. If it looks good and it works, then it looks good and it works, and if it doesn't,... _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
