There's a comment right under the video explaining what's going on. Apparently they are being filmed by a camera and the goggles show them how they look from the side.
While I have no idea how effective this particular method, I can tell there was more than one occasion when I looked at a video of myself dancing and cringed at how bad my posture was. So this instant feedback might be quite useful. Sergey May you be forever touched by His Noodly Appendage... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster ) On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Mario <sopel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Is good 'teaching' all about making the simple difficult? > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKtQxz0mV8 > What I've learned from studying language acquisition is that the > 'whole' is bigger than the sum of it's parts. > Chopping a dance up into it's parts in order to learn to dance, > has it's pluses and minuses...but seeing the whole dance as a 'whole' > has only it's plusses. So, we work with this. > What I disagree with in this video, is alienating the student from > an already asimulated part of him/herself. Taking what would be familiar and > making it foreign..My own belief is that fluency breeds more fluency. > ..and getting away from fluency is just that..getting away from fluency. > Dances are best enjoyed when they are fluently danced. > So, I'm against practising awkwardness. What the heck are they doing, > anyway?? > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKtQxz0mV8 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > Tango-L@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l