Ming Mar wrote: "The following video shows students respecting the beat of the music and not bumping into each other."
A practica, by definition is not a class, hence I do not see the relevance of "teaching" & this video to the point in question. Still I think it is a great idea to use a video to illustrate a point though this is a difficult one to use because it chops from couple to couple & doesn't really let you see how any couple deals with musical phrase. Some of the guys are on the beat. Some of the women are moving *with* them. I don't see anyone particularly dancing the music, but then I wouldn't get up to dance that track myself. Too bad they didn't use the much better version by Rodriguez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWXcdw56Rew instead of the goo they are dancing to. But the main point is I didn't say that "staying on the beat" was hard to teach, I said I thought these things were hard to teach "*stays in the line of dance, is safe, dances the music, isn't forceful, and has a **nice embrace. *" "Dancing the music" is not at all the same thing as "staying on the beat". Ming Mar wrote: "The teacher or teaching assistant should check each student to see if he/she feels right because you can't tell by simply looking." I think that is a strange idea - a teacher "checking" an embrace to see if it "feels right". Honestly? Consider the alternative. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
