[Tango-L] Dance What You Love To Hear WAS Re: Tango Music

[Keith]

Carol,

I competely agree with you. The more you learn any kind of dance, 
the easier it is to learn a new dance. And I think every dancer knows this. 
Makes me think that Jake is not a dancer. Either that or he's been dancing 
so long that he's forgotten what it was like to be a non-dancer. Considering 
his posts on Tango-L, I suspect it's the latter.

Keith, HK

On Sun Sep 30  3:31 , Carol Shepherd  sent:

>
>I couldn't disagree more strongly with Jake, that one is better off 
>learning argentine tango without previous dance experience.  Training in 
>coordinated rhythmic body movement and experience in creating a frame 
>and a connection with a partner, and in communicating lead and follow, 
>put a new tango dancer light years ahead of someone who is inexperienced 
>and has no comfort with coordinated body movement and/or social dancing. 
>  It's true that dancers get ahead of themselves and perceive 
>similarities between dances that aren't there, and it can be hard to 
>undo ingrained habits.  An excellent dance teacher should know enough 
>about the basic structure of all the popular social dances, to know 
>about the differentials in frame, posture, lead and follow, style, and 
>vocabulary of moves, and be able to help translate for these 
>'cross-dancers'.
>