I'm familiar with kinaesthesia. But I don't think it's applicable to explaining the concept of "invitation & acceptance" in the parlance of tango. Sub-conscious agreements is not I believe what is being alluded to in describing the lead & follow roles of the dance. If it is, it's not really relevant in a tutorial sense, as it's an unconscious response, and I believe, requires deep seated imprinting to be reliably reproduced.
Anton -----Original Message----- From: chris...@gmail.com [mailto:chris...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chris John Jordan Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2011 9:45 AM To: an...@alidas.com.au Cc: Tango-L; chrisjj Subject: Re: [Tango-L] The Tango Invitation or simply a lead Anton > Can it really be true that the inviter invites his partner to take a step or > make a movement, waits while the invitee considers the request, then waits > for the invitee to begin to execute the request and follows invitee to the > successful or not, conclusion of the invitation. The decision making > component of this process is supposed to happen within a few milliseconds. It is certainly true, except there's no consider or decision. The process is autonomic, unconscious. It happens through the kinesthetic coupling of the embrace. > Yet many of us would have difficulty choosing which bread to take off the supermarket > shelves within the same timeframe. Because that's done with a different kind of process - conscious thought. Chris.(www.chrisjj.com) _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l