[Tango-L] "Stay away from self appointed tango teachers."

[David Hodgson]

Humm, just saw this post. Ok, I will jump in.
Derik, I am going to get down to business here (only for a moment). The way
your talking and what I hear, of your interpretation of Tango is.

1. You think and therefore assume too much.
2. Dance the patterns and steps, therefore talk, and therefore all below the
belt.

My question to you Derik. What is tango to you?

(Trini, when we have the opportunity to dance together I request you wear
the shoes that make you growl. I also ask you make this obvious as I am a
man, Thank you.)
 
David~

To the moderators, will only post positive feed back from here on out, I
just needed to ask the question, TKX10


-----Original Message-----
From: tango-l-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:tango-l-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Derik Rawson
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 6:40 PM
To: Trini y Sean (PATangoS); Tango-L
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] "Stay away from self appointed tango teachers."

Dear Trini:

What are you two talking about....lol.  I do front
ochos all the in variations of close and open embrace.
 As you have heard it said many times, "The embrace
opens and closes like a bandondeon."  My point is to
vary the embrace.  You should know how to be connected
with your partner, no matter what.  
Keeping the embrace closed all the time is like
keeping the bandondeon closed all the
time...ridiculous!  My view is that the inexperience
and lack of understanding probably falls more on the
side of the people who do close embrace all the time,
and their teachers who purposely eliminate teaching
the front ocho entirely....like Tine.  Give me a
break....lol.

Derik
d.rawson at rawsonweb.com


--- "Trini y Sean (PATangoS)" <patangos at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Hi Derik,
> 
> Trini, here.  As someone who dances close-embrace
> most
> of the time, I can tell you that it is quite
> possible
> to do a front ocho in close-embrace.  Your posts
> indicate that your relative inexperience lets you
> believe that such is not possible.  I suggest that
> if
> you worked more on the close-embrace you will
> discover
> a lot more options that you are missing out on.  And
> you might understand better why so many people, not
> just Americans, enjoy dancing close-embrace
> "all-the-time".  
> 
> Personally, dancing close allows me to better
> communicate with my partner.  This is the spice that
> adds a lot of variety to the dance...to those men
> who
> can listen.
> 
> Happy tangos, whatever your style.
> Trini de Pittsburgh
> 
> 
> --- Derik Rawson <rawsonweb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Sean:
> > 
> > 1.  I chose Andres because I like the way he
> dances.
> > 2.  Andres would probably tell you and all the
> other
> > "close embrace all the time people", to open up
> the
> > embrace briefly to allow a front ocho, and then
> > close
> > the embrace again afterwords.  Variety is the
> spice
> > of
> > life, right?
> > 
> > Derik
> > d.rawson at rawsonweb.com
> > 
> 
> 
> PATangoS - Pittsburgh Argentine Tango Society 
> Our Mission: To make Argentine Tango Pittsburgh's
> most popular social dance. 
> http://www.pitt.edu/~mcph/PATangoWeb.htm
> 
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