Noughts wrote: > Myk > > Chicho is definitely NOT using his arms in this clip. It is often > misconstrued when people use arms and when they don't. Keeping ones > frame is different to using the arms independent of the frame which > would then be 'using the arms'. > The frame changes shape far more radically in Chicho's 'nuevo' dancing than in traditional tango. There are times when the lady is more beside him than in front of him. I'm not saying that it's bad or evil, just that it is a quite different style of dance. Wherever you fall in the debate about whether nuevo dancing belongs in the same milongas as traditional dancing, you have to agree that they are different styles.
> Whilst visually different and feeling different, I can't stress this > enough, but the leading is the same. Very hard for most salon/close > embrace dancers to understand as they rarely get enough time/skill to > lead correctly when open. Like anything, it takes practice. > Sorry, Damian, but I disagree. The leading is not "the same". Chicho is leading with his frame (using the arms to adjust the shape of the frame), more like ballroom dancing. Traditional tango leads from the chest, and your chest is always facing your partner. That's a different way of leading, and dancing. Chicho abandons the chest connection in order to make a more visually interesting and varied dance. > Watch Chicho when he is doing close embrace or salon as well which he > regularly performs. Note that the hand in both close/salon and then > in open stays roughly the same distance in front and to the side, > hence, NOT pushing or pulling. Did I say pushing or pulling? No. I said "using". When the person you're dancing with is beside your chest, then in front of your chest, then beside your chest again, you are not leading with your chest, you are leading with your arms. Myk, in Canberra _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
