Thanks Sergio ;-) Nice that you say I dance like Chicho. He definitely has had the most influence in his tempo, timing and footwork. :-) I had students come back from BA recently who saw him dance, but did not know who he was. Then they had enough naivety to say, "that dude dances like Damian" when it is 100% the other way, but it was a great compliment for me anyway :-) Chicho laughed when I told him ;-)
The video that you picked out, our most recent was after Julz and I had not danced together for about 6 months. I now live 2 hours flight away from her, so we were very very rusty - I still prefer an older one to Malena (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtC274rrGSk) when we had had more time dancing together regularly.. once every 6 months is not enough at the moment... "I agree that open-embrace adopts an expanded set of (usually rote-learned) figures comprising a number of steps, mostly adaptations of performance or demonstration (no judgement intended here)" I would disagree with this. Open, learned correctly is the same as closed, but open.... sorry but for me, it's that simple. Both have their own axis and both work with chest leads.... Damian _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
