[Tango-L] Brian and Jake Directional Notation Analysis

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>Hi Manuel!
>
> >>>
>While this is an interesting discussion, I question the value of developing
>and dwelling in a complicated system of nomenclature. I think that all 
>these
>
>things are quite useful and perhaps even invaluable to the advanced (I mean
>"really" advanced) dancer, they are wasted or even an impediment to the
>beginner or even intermediate dancers.
><<<
>
>Well, that's not our experience.  Total beginners get parallel/crossed,
>open/closed side of the embrace, and the "three-step" framework in the 
>first
>or second lesson, and tend to jump on it like water in the desert - they
>start using it right away.

Hi Brian,

I must congratulate you on your incredible results. I have not heard those 
kinds of results with total beginners since the earlier days of the apilado 
style miracle system (-;
Believe me, we've been studying tango from the faguchi trio for many years 
and we've been teaching for many years as well. My experience is that there 
is no short cut, miracle teaching system that gets total beginners dancing 
tango in one or two lessons. With very few notable exceptions, most people 
find it difficult to dance tango even after many lessons. Even after taking 
lots of lessons from their local teachers and intensive workshops with 
Gustavo, Fabian or Chicho, most beginners cannot dance tango very well at 
all.

Personally, I've seen people struggle tremendously to master an arrepentida 
and a simple walk with weight changes, let alone perform all sorts of Nuevo 
Tango excercises like a duck taking to water. While I find this discussion 
interesting and provocative in an intellectual sort of way, I still think 
it's an excercise in polemics and fairly useless for teaching basic, 
traditional social tango. Actually, I think this whole topic is degenerating 
into some sort or analyses of tango steps for it's own sake. Personally I 
much rather dance with a woman who can follow simple leads smoothly and 
feels the tango than with an expert who can recite and diagram every 
possible permutation of steps and delights in the mechanical repetition of 
colgadas, soltadas, volcadas, ganchos and boleos.

Of course, this is just my opinion and preference. Although I'm a great 
admirer of Gustavo Naveira, Fabian Salas and Chicho, I make no apology for 
my predilection of traditional tango danced to traditional tango music, at 
least for social dancing at the milongas. For that, it's not necessary to 
develop an entire nomenclature just to describe the position of ones legs 
during a salida.....

Sincerely,

Manuel

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