Re: [Tango-L] Why (going to/ or teaching) too many classes can be deadly

Floyd, I think the real problem is that many women [and men] go to workshops and forget why they're there - not to learn patterns but to learn how to dance better. Even worse, many women think they can already dance so they don't need to go to classes anymore. They're then stuck at whatever le

Re: [Tango-L] tweaking lower back

Carol, Wow, sounds like you have serious problems there. I know there are many ways of teaching Tango so, usually, I don't pontificate too much :-). But good posture is so fundamental to good Tango that every teacher should teach it from day one and every day thereafter. And it can be difficul

Re: [Tango-L] Why (going to/ or teaching) too many classes can be deadly

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:44:38 EDT, you wrote: >The best dancers are the people who try to be them selves, >not Oscar and Tete wantabees. >I no longer go to as many workshops as I use to. 99% of them >are just dance steps anyway. The real problem I think is that women come to the workshops...

Re: [Tango-L] Origin of Tandas

Yes... It looks like I misread that he didn't understand them at all 'now' as well.. But I did read Golden Age..., roughly from the mid 30's through to the mid 50's. And both DiSarli and Biagi as well as DiArenzo, Canaro, et al, were playing live and of course making recordings too at tha

[Tango-L] Cafe de Los Maestros

A friend called me on Thursday morning to tell me about something special going on at 2:30pm at the Academia Nacional del Tango. I didn't have anything planned, so I decided to join her there for what we expected to be an homanaje for Anibal Arias. It turned out to be much more. As I arrived at

Re: [Tango-L] Origin of Tandas

I don't think you answered David's question. . . What you describe (quite nicely) is how the tanda system works now. But I believe the question was: what about in the beginning, when they presumably didn't have Biagi and DiSarli and who-knows-what-else all in one night, but rather had just one

Re: [Tango-L] Origin of Tandas

If the couple is new, and I'll assume so for the purposes of Tango etiquette described below..., the lady looks around the room for a leader she would like to dance with... If a leader sees a lady looking his way, and he would like to ask her to dance, they do a cabaceo... He nods his head whi

[Tango-L] Origin of Tandas

I couldn't find this discussed in the archives and am very curious: Back in the golden age, when you danced the entire night to one Orquesta Tipica, did they play 3 or 4 songs and then some rock 'n roll (or whatever)?? What was a night of tango like back then?? Where did the tanda system as w

Re: [Tango-L] space in close embrace

--- "Chris, UK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > she doesn't extend the leg from the hip. she starts > under the rib cage. > > Girls, unless you too have had your hip joints surgically > raised by 20cm... > > ...keep in mind that region is employed equally by the > standing leg, > giving you gro

[Tango-L] tweaking lower back

"Back on their heels with their pelvis tucked under" -Carol I'm trying to picture this stance. Does it look like they are slightly bent forward from the waist? - pelvis in and under the chest? Shoulders slightly forward? ..hard to picture.. would you describe the 'better' stance? Is it; pel

Re: [Tango-L] There is only tango...

Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no open or close embrace...no traditional or nuevo...no milonguero > or salon... > > There is only tango... > > Make this your mantra... I found what would appear to be a couple of portenas on YouTube discussing your theory. http://tinyurl.com/

[Tango-L] There is only tango...

There is no open or close embrace...no traditional or nuevo...no milonguero or salon... There is only tango... Make this your mantra... ___ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l

Re: [Tango-L] tweaking lower back

The majority of men I dance with are sitting back on their heels with their pelvis tucked under. They learn the correct posture and then five minutes later they go back to what I call 'midwestern couch slouch.' It's not possible to dance close embrace with these guys and stay on your own axis,

Re: [Tango-L] What Argentine Tango is, and what it is not

Huck Kennedy wrote: > That's when they ask me, "Oh, that sounds nice, how often do you > compete?," > The correct answer for many is, of course, "every time I write a post on tango-l". There's no lakc of competitive spirit and one- upmanship on this list ;). -- Alexis Cousein

Re: [Tango-L] bad nuevo

> Also, even "traditionals" use moves and techniques invented or at least > re-invented and popularized by nuevo teachers. I.e. even nuevos have discovered moves and techniques used by traditionals. Only through ignorance can discovery be mistaken for invention. > it enables dancers to invent