Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
What ought to be a simple step to lead and follow is in fact, very difficult (for me, at least) to lead. Say that you are facing the line of dance and want, for whatever silly reason, to be walking backwards in parallel system. In order to make this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
*Latin; Always Ready
A gentleman tanguero should be always ready; no matter the occasion.
..At work…
..On the training floor
…After class…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I infer from observing blog ’stats and traffic that are perhaps a dozen or so readers who check in or otherwise stumble across this blog every few days. Thanks .. be aware this blog will slow in its tempo of postings as my own tango path enters a kind of plateau soon after [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
A dance instructor recommended this work to me by way of pointing me towards a resource for getting one’s self in touch with one’s artistic side.
This work is actually intended for musicians, but I find that I can glean benefit from it. I am picking my way through it in odd bits and pieces [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
The “leaning” exercises taught by P. and C. are not there so they can collect instructor’s fees. They are there to teach you to find your center in a forward lean so you can clean up your **** close embrace molinetas. You both need that space created by the lean in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
..Or at least like Isaac. The normal pedestrian walk, which uses gravity to help you move forward, needs to be overcome both in the forward and backwards (and sideways) direction. Practice (say, backwards) by extending - pushing with the non extended leg vs. “pulling” with the extended leg. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Murphy’s Law of Tango, as expressed by Isaac: If you give her two options, she will choose the one you didn’t want her to take. Walking exercise for both open and close embrace: Side step to left (or right) and walk forward with left (or right) walking to her (left) or (right), and practice stepping across [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Overstepping an ocho figure (and making the ocho figure smaller) and doing this overstep in a slightly radial kind of step around her makes the boleo mas limpia. To the left … still problematic. (private with Carina & E.)
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2008 | No Comments »
If I figure it correctly, there are 8 permutations for forward molinetas … cross and parallel walking, performed to the right and left. But only four step combinations to worry about?
Posted in BsAs, Uncategorized on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
This guy seems to be much further along the trail than I, but has the same flavor of angst. I appreciate how one commenter mentions his post Buenos Aires blues.
