[Tango-L] No arms?

[Nina Pesochinsky]

It is an incredible mistake to teach people to dance without arms.   
Great male dancers never lead "from the chest".  Instead, they lead  
from the embrace, which includes everything.  Leading "from the chest"  
results in dancers walking like chickens and stepping on the woman  
because the arms that hold her are asleep.  Not to mention annoying  
the women with a dead, empty embrace.

If you don't like holding women in your embrace, then you are right -  
you do not need the arms.

Where did people get these ideas of "leading from the chest"?  I have  
never heard any of the great masters (Mingo Pugliese, Carlos Gavito,  
Pepito Avellaneda, and others) to ever teach this.  The embrace is  
what ahs always been emphasized.

Best,

Nina



Quoting Miguel Canals <elpibemc1961 at yahoo.ca>:

>> Melroy wrote:
>>
>> A while ago, at a milonga, there was a little game.
>> We had to dance with random partners, with just a balloon between our
>> chests!
>
>
> A milonga? I'll be sure I stay away from any milonga run by the organizer/DJ.
>
> That aside.  I've done this exercise in class to emphasize the   
> importance of having the torsos of the dancers facing each other   
> (dis-association).  I've also done lots of exercises of leading with  
>  no hands to emphasize the importance of leading with the chest in   
> close embrace.
>
> MC.
>
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