[Tango-L] Stop the Figures and Concentrate on the Connection and the Music

[Lucia]

Ron Weigel's exhortation says it well, but  he is charging the windmills...
    
    There's a golden rule of tango that says that  one should make at least one  complete circle of the dance floor.  Adhering to this rule imposes a certain rhythm to the whole dancing  floor, limits the figures and/or speeds them up. It would make for real  dancing, but how many care? One learns a figure or embellishment in an hour, while good dancing requires total dedication...
  
  Lucia

Ron Weigel <tango.society at gmail.com> escribió: embellishments are elements that are ADDED
as spice to a dance, to be used sparingly at appropriate moments. They
should not BECOME the dance.

Yet it seems as much as there are Figure Kings by the thousands out
there, there are also thousands of Embellishment Queens. There is
something wrong with a tango educational system that teaches WHAT you
do on your own instead of HOW you dance with your partner and HOW you
dance with the music.

Ron
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