On 05/07/2011 15:08, Trini y Sean (PATangoS) wrote: > You miss my point. If you've studied cognitive memory, then > you're aware that people have short term memories of 5 plus/minus > 2 chunks of information. These chunks get bigger as experience and > muscle memory grow. Thus, a 12+ count sequence only becomes about 2 > or 3 chunks,
If it's 12 counts long chances are it's not atomic (and possibly too long to concentrate on the essence). Once you're that advanced, you're usually also capable of piecing together smaller chunks into a large sequence yourself, so my experience is that the people who *can* be taught 12+ count sequences are those that may not *want* to be taught 12+ count sequences, but just the elements (i.e. a basic element that is perhaps 2 to 6 counts large but includes something non-obvious, plus an obvious entry and resolution bolted on for practical purposes while you're learning it). I know some teachers will use an "obvious entry" that's 5 counts long to get into e.g. a right hand side cross system and may want to bolt on an exit that's also quite long to get back into the LOD (if only to prevent accidents from happening later when people fail to adapt the exit), and that frequently does make the sequence 12 counts long or longer. I don't mind that much, because I usually pattern match the obvious bits at the start and end quite well (so I don't have to learn them), but I still have an aesthetic preference on being taught just the element with minimal entry/exit first. Certainly if the extra fluff is just inserted to make it fit into the D8CB pattern. An advanced dancer should be able to move with something else than the right foot back when he starts anyway. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
