[Tango-L] leading w/fingers on back

[Yale Tango Club]

Hey
   
  Since you ask, personally I don't enjoy a lot of hand action on the back. I have felt the pinch, the claw, the knead and the piano hand and I don't know what it means so it doesn't make me do things other than look puzzled. I find it distracting. A bit invasive, even, depending on the situation. I prefer the flat hand on the back, to me it feels the nicest. It's reassuringly there and yet not intrusive. I follow the axis not the hand.
  This applies when I'm dancing open. No hand issues, mostly, when dancing close. Well, some beginners squeeze or fiddle when nervous. I disregard that.
   
  Have you leaders who use the hand, found that using the hand is a reliable consistent way to make followers do stuff?
   
  Tine

Martin Waxman <martin at waxman.net> wrote:
  For me, the leader's right arm and hand are live -- they move 
position and indicate leads depending on what I am leading and the 
experience of the follower.
It is all done very lightly -- a subtle indication/suggestion to the 
follower, using position of the right hand on the followers back, and 
using the fingers and heel of the hand.
And, it is done in conjunction with the leader's body movement.

In my opinion, not tacky, but a positive lead.

Marty Waxman
New York City's Thursday afternoon and Friday mid-morning practicas.


At 10:08 AM 5/4/2006, Michael Figart II wrote:
>Good morning list,
>
>This was posted a while back, and it has stuck in my mind...I know this
>method is used frequently and maybe it's effective, but to me it really
>looks tacky. I'd like to find out what the followers think about a
>leader who guides with fingers of right hand; what does it feel like? Is
>it bad? Or am I just biased because I have no fingers to use? (I
>understand that fingers can be used as part of hand/arm/whole body...I'm
>talking about the really obvious stuff where leader looks like he is
>pushing buttons or switching levers).
>
><<<<<< Then you place your hand on her back and explain to the beginner
>tango dancers that the right part of her back controls her Rt. leg and
>that the Lt. part of her body controls her Lt. one. Then you proceed to
>show the correct lead of a front ocho. You touch the lady's rt. side of
>her back with the fingers of your right hand applying a slight pressure
>(no stubbing here) and the lady advances her rt. leg. to your right.
>Then with the area of your rt. hand close to the wrist (the tennar
>prominence of the hand) you put some pressure on the lt side of the
>woman's back so that she pivots and advances her lt. leg finishing the
>second half of her front ocho.>>>>>>>>
>
>What do you think, ladies (or guys too, I guess)? And thanks for your
>input!
>
>Michael from Texas
>
>
>
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