Jan Bares wrote:
... During my classical ballet classes, I found an information about the
research documenting that physical expression needs to be taught separately
from the musicality...
In classes we have organized with Luciana Valle, she defines musicality as
taking in what the music gives
On 21/04/11 23:12, Sharon Pedersen wrote:
It's interesting to me to compare the tango situation to the situation
for contradance, which is danced entirely to live music and has a
thriving population of dance bands who play very well for dancers.
I wonder what makes the difference?
From my
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Michael tangoman...@cavtel.net wrote:
I compliment good dancers where good is defined as ease of movement and
musicality,
What is the measure of a follower's musicality? (Measure is the wrong
word for this, but I can't think of the right word.) For a leader, I
Sharon:
I mean that the woman finishes her adornment, step over, or something else at
the end of a measure or phrase. (It feels better at the end of a phrase because
it feels like a period at the end of a sentence.) She takes her time to add an
adornment to her boleo or stepover. She knows what
Totally disagree with all those who want to isolate tango instruction
from the music. The only reason to dance IS the music. If not, just
take up tai chi, or contact improv, or partner yoga, why bother with
tango. The student should learn the feel of the steps, the technique,
and the
Am 25.04.2011 18:54 schrieb Michael :
Walk to his music and you'll feel the end of phrases. Musically, I'm pretty
sure a phrase is 16 measures.
If you define measure like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_%28music%29 , a phrase in tango has
usually 4 measures (roughly 8 sec). 16 of
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Nussbaum, Martin mnuss...@law.nyc.gov wrote:
Totally disagree with all those who want to isolate tango instruction
from the music. The only reason to dance IS the music.
While I absolutely agree that music is the only reason to dance,
learning a movement
I also believe that any movement, sequence, should be able to be
executed in slow motion to make
sure that balance is maintained at all stages (excluding volcadas and
colgadas, even those too can
be performed in slow motion). Obviously music is not required. On the
other hand, one can always
Almost all beginners can step on the beat, with a little (decent)
instruction. Dancing to the music means movement energy corresponds to
musical energy, which is about the beat plus the phrase.
When a beginner moves WITH the phrase of the music, the movements feel
right, and he has more
Michael, we shall continue the conversation in NY when you get here. To
put it simply, If there is no music, there is no dance. If there is no
music, there is no tango. You can also learn how to dance by studying
ballet. But we are reading this list because we dance tango, not ballet.
Nothing in
Let’s try to sort this music / learning / dancing question out.
Unless you’re from another planet every one of you have had a tango lesson
group or private
First the instructors will dance the figure their going to teach
Now the men and women get split up usually facing each other from
Martin, Tom,
Sorry, have to disagree. You have a student whose total concentration is on
“which foot first and where do I place it? And then, where does my other foot
go?” It does not matter how well the instructor explains the music, the music
at this point is a distraction or at best the
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