[Tango-L] learning

[Keith Elshaw]

Al wrote:

>So perhaps it is not such a stretch to learn a particular set of steps
without any music. It might be easier to memorize the sequence without
the music.


I wonder if it might not be something of a help for beginners to
understand that the good dancers (aside from nuevos) they see don't do
"steps." They move to the music in harmony with another.

"Steps" is a convenient word to use many times; but good dancers say it
always inside the quotation marks.

A fluid dancer isn't thinking, is only once in a blue moon focussing the
mind on doing a "step" or a sequence.

Learning detail without context can be such a barrier to actually dancing.

Such doesn't apply to strictly nuevo dancers, I realise. Nuevos - like
stage performers - indeed think continually, do steps (no quotation marks)
and memorized sequences.

Two unique kinds of tango.