[Tango-L] Chris UK Comparing tango gods to mortal teachers

[Keith]

Hi Trini,

I wasn't refering to Chris' recent message, but his email dated 2 October 2006 
and reprinted below.

To: Tango-L at mit.edu 
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Discussion Topics 
From: "Chris, UK" <tl2 at chrisjj.com> 
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:24 +0100 (BST) 

Here is an example from a study I made about five years ago of the methods of 
about 60 tango teachers.

Gustavo Naviera taught a lesson on "Boleos". He began by having the class watch 
his dancing... a demonstration of a long sequence near the end of which was one 
boleo. He then asked the class to copy it. Some could not get past the tricky 
turn at the start. Some more got stuck on the cross-system chain in the middle. 
A few got as far as the boleo. Some skipped most of the sequence and cut straight 
to the boleo. This was an example of a method that excluded most of the class 
from the lesson.

Chris


On Tue Mar 27 23:42 , "Trini y Sean (PATangoS)"  sent:

>
>Keith - Chris did not say that he didn't learn anything
>from Gustavo.  He only said that Gustavo's partner didn't
>say anything.  
>
>He also said that it was 7 years ago.  With the Argentine
>couples I have seen now, the women are quite talkative, for
>the most part.  Chicho's partner didn't say anything during
>some recent workshops in Baltimore, but that seems unusual
>now.  Here, people expect both the men and women to teach
>equally in the class.  Even the guys find it odd if the
>woman is only assisting.
>
>Trini
>
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