This is the beginning, but he was going into more and more details. For example, if I remember correctly, instead of your "4 different sacadas" he would count 6 - L/R foot, done with front cross, back cross and open. Also he would count an extra variation done with both feet at the same time - it looked like a jump that was so out of place in tango. I have never ever seen him or anyone else doing that jumpy sacada with both feet, but it was included for the purpose of classification. I got lost somewhere there, but there were more and more minute variations that were bringing the total count to hundreds.
Sergey On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Nussbaum, Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > > Sergey says a friend of his came up with 1000 sacadas? Please show > them to me. > From a pure sturcutral anlaysis, by my calculation there are only 48. > Here is my analysis: > Lets start with leader doing sac to follower. There are only 3 steps > involving full weight shift for follower in tango. Front cross, back > cross, and open. They can be done with two different feet. So thats a > total of six positions available to sacada. For each step of > follower, lets say right open step, the leader could do 4 different > sacadas to her departing left foot; front sac with right or left, back > sac with right or left. (Side sacadas by leader are just a variety of > one of above, it makes no difference to me whether your angle of > approach is 90 degress, 85 degrees, 45 degrees, etc.) > So that makes 24 for leader. The follower could be led to do the same > to the leader. So that gives you another 24 for a total of 48 sacadas. > -Martin Nussbaum > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
