List, Trini y Sean (PATangoS) wrote: >> So how can the 8CB be taught successfully? Is your objective to successfully teach improv tango, or to successfully teach the 8CB? Or to teach dancers to place the 8CB (or parts of it) within another context? Answering that should probably point you straight. (Although I should add... I myself don't often use either the cruzada or the so-called "resolution" for anything like what you describe in your post... most of the time it's quite the opposite, actually.)
As for the question (put by 'Mash) of how to UN-learn the 8CB as a default pattern... which is how this thread started... I might suggest _leading it entirely on purpose_ first, so that at least it's deliberate rather than "automatic." From that point, it'll be easier to NOT do it, because you'll have started using the one tool-- namely, intention-- that you need for everything. No departure from the 8CB will be freely available to you, except by accident, unless the 8CB itself is first made deliberate, and therefore also _freely_ available rather than forced. Many people use the same method of self-correction to overcome "automatic" (i.e., habitual) typos: first they make the typo on purpose, to bring it within their conscious control. This gives them the ability to exercise their (conscious) will in favor of other ends, and reduces the typo from an automatic habit to merely one action among several alternatives. In other words: Make the mistake on purpose, in order to establish "on purpose" as the overriding factor. Performing the action consciously rather than unconsciously can liberate you from it. How the 8CB became automatic, or was learned at all, is IMO largely irrelevant. Plenty of other things become automatic too, for any number of reasons-- they're just not so vilified. Jake DC p.s. This isn't straight out of Freud, but it might as well be. In any case, the statement "when I am nervous my mind blanks itself of any variation of steps" certainly indicates something quite /like/ a mild neurosis. ;-) ... as does the confessed frustration in coping with it. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
