Not expecting to convince anyone, so this is my last post on this topic, and I am preaching to the choir for the several who have agreed with me in private, unsure why they don't post to the list. May I propose an experiment to those who consider music a distraction to learning dance. In the next workshop, when the music comes on, don't simply jump into the sequence or figure shown. First, embrace your partner, connect, just start dancing a little, a few steps you already know, as if you were in the milonga, and as if you love the music. Then when you feel in the groove, throw in the sequence, or as much of it that fits the phrase, continue with other steps you know, then in the next phrase, throw in the other parts of the sequence you missed. Finally, add them together. You will quickly integrate the new information with your current technique. I have had compliments from followers in class who have expresses surprise that I actually dance in class while learning. Well, duh. I dance to the music being played. Siempre. I believe that's the quickest route to becoming musical with whatever you learn in a workshop. Life and my memory, are far too short to hope to remember that phrase at some point in the future when it will fit, if I havent learned how it fits musically to begin with. As useless as memorizing long lists of pronouns, or verbs, in a foreign language, and then waiting until you get to the next chapter on sentence composition to actually use the pronouns in a sentence. Or learning how to kick a soccer ball without using a soccer ball until game time.
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