A more “playful” session today, the last, excepting one more soley for review and some video recording. – Forward hook: Out of the american position, have that left out in front and turned outward. It needs to be in front of her foot so you don’t block her pivot. Experiments with, say, a sacada/boleo resolution [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Arms and the man
Posted in BsAs on November 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sawtooth
Posted in BsAs, Diary on November 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The classes I have been having are ended with a 10 or 15 minute diversion into milonga; which is a way to blow off the stress of trying to apprehend some difficult combination of figures; it ends things on a positive note after an hour and a half session. Probably for the teacher, as well. [...]
Bits and pieces…
Posted in BsAs, Diary on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In times past I have tried to use my own off-brand notation to describe what I am doing, or simply record my impressions. Sometimes life just comes at you too fast to indulge yourself in scribbling your memories. And even at that, it seems now at what level I am that getting things hard-wired into [...]
Randomness
Posted in BsAs, Notes on November 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Figure: leading a forward ocho, sacada forward with the left, pivoting, extending the right out to catch the lady’s L in what should be her side step. Barrida it back to la cruz. Observed in group class. Today in private: Lady’s sacadas. More work tomorrow on this.. the different between one that works and one [...]
The Cycle repeats
Posted in BsAs, Notes on November 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I find that I am hearing the same comments about my dance as I did a year ago. While this may be thought of in one sense as disheartening, it is not. It takes a long time for these things to sink into our subconciousness so deeply that the body acts as quickly as the [...]
Buenos Aires, November 2010
Posted in Diary on November 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Some great time ago I took my first trip to Buenos Aires; and my tango naivete was such that I thought that maybe I could leave my struggling beginner status behind. I did do that, in time, and my first trip helped in that regard; but I think I was blissfully ignorant of just how [...]
