[Tango-L] No arms?

[Nina Pesochinsky]

Hi, Michael,

How can men push with their arms if they are holding a woman in an 
embrace?  The arms are kind of busy.  I am talking about the real 
embrce and not holding a woman 5 feet away with only the hands on her 
body, which does not even count as anything related to tango.

An embrace of tango is impossible to dissociate into hands, arms, 
chest, etc. if it is a real embrace.

Nina

At 03:03 PM 9/26/2007, Michael wrote:
>Nina wrote:
>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.
>*******************************************************************************
>Nina:
>I think this might not have been explained well. Too many
>men lead with their arms. They push the woman backward and
>then step forward. The idea of teaching without arms takes
>away the man's pushing. If he steps on the woman's feet, it
>means he stepped first instead of leading her to step first.
>
>As for leading from the chest, that's where most of the body
>contact is. I think this is an issue of semantics
>
>Michael Ditkoff
>Washington, DC
>
>I'd rather be dancing Argentine Tango
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