[Tango-L] Four Layers of Tango Learning

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

Yes, but to watch what?  That, I think is where people can
get stuck.  It's interesting to what people see and don't
see as they progress in tango.  At one point after a demo,
they may think "Wow, cool steps!".  Eventually, they may
(or may not) focus more on whether a couple appears
connected or not and the cool steps don't matter.

As been pointed out before, good teachers use a variety of
ways to get their ideas across.  And perhaps this will
spark their students to develop methods on their own to
advance their learning.

Trini de Pittsburgh  


--- Anna Zelenina <desdelasnubes at web.de> wrote:

> Carol,
> 
> I think learning by watching is a basic skill that ALL
> people have, it's a natural talent, like the learning by
> doing ;). 
> "observational learning plays an important role in
> aquiring motor skills throughout the human lifespan".
> As detailed in the Dec. 20 issue of the Journal of
> Neuroscience, researchers, using functional magnetic
> resonance imaging, 
> found that when a person watches someone else perform a
> task with the intention of later replicating the observed
> performance, motor areas of the brain are activated in a
> fashion similar to that with accompanies actual movement.
> 
> (see Journal of Neuroscience, December 2006 "Modulation
> of Neural Activity during Ovservational Learning of
> Actions and Their Sequential ORders", pdf available on
> the website).
> The important part is the /intention/ of replicating. 
> 
> Observational learning is common, but it seems that the
> skill is better developed in countries 
> were people more often practice this, they are more
> trained to learn by observation. 
> The dance teaching in countries like Argentina or Cuba
> develops observation skills: 
> people dance with you and they also  teach you sequences
> by dancing and having you watch.
> People learn a lot just by observing others in the
> milonga. And it works.
> In Germany, for instance, many dance teachers like to
> disseminate movements and to teach the dance step by
> step,  
> giving verbal explanations of the movements etc. People
> get used to being served the disseminated dance, 
> and they won't digest it if it's not divided in pieces.
> But that doesn't mean it's the way they are made 
> and that they could not change that. Everything can
> change. 
> Todo cambia. Cambia el modo de pensar, cambia todo en
> este mundo ;)
> 
> Anna
> 





       
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