[Tango-L] Technical vs Sensual - Where are the Engineers from?

[Yale Tango Club]

Hello,
  There are many engineers and scientist types who dance - our club is mostly those. We affectionately call them our nerds and I am the alpha nerd. I do a good amount of teaching, especially beginners classes
  I find our nerds very easy to teach to and visiting teachers tend to agree. It depends a lot on the teacher, I suppose.
  The thing is that you have to be able to give very precise instructions and choose your words carefully, and if you achieve that you can get by with minimal talking and no need for metaphors and stories. Saying "Like So" and showing the same thing three times with some slight variation in timing, foot placement, or chirality (like mirror-image moves), tends to not do the aha trick at all, but only confuses ppl further.
  If instead you say, then do a 270 with your left foot pointing at 7 o'clock and your nose a quarter turn ahead of your hips. Or, the center of rotation is here and the leaders feet are on the circumference of the circle. Or the leader is stationary and the follower moves around art a radius of.... Or, dispel the momentum of the rebound from the torque into a forward step. Stuff like that. 
  It is possible that the teacher in the class who you refer to, was more the artistic kind of explainer who was speaking a different language from your engineer friend, and not merely Spanish or something. When you need to communicate efficiently with a scientist or engineer, nothing beats talking like one yourself. Your friend might have gotten it in 10 words. 
  Tine
   
  
Lucia <curvasreales at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
  oaquin escribió: >>>>
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, Engineers are from somewhere else,

joaquin 


Engineers are from Vulcan, the fictional planet from Star Trek.
Vulcan is the Roman name for Hephaestus, the Greek God of Technology.
Hephaestus had a lab with twenty furnaces running 24/7, made robots and produced lightnings.

He had broken feet and couldn't dance - why wonder - but had Venus as wife!

Lucia ;->

PS Once they learn the algorithm, many engineers dance very well, and have beautiful wives too...




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