[Tango-L] Two of My Teaching Pet Peeves

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

Unfortunately, I don't have time to read all of the posts
that popped up today while I was at work.  And I probably
won't until after I return from Ann Arbor.  So, please
excuse me if I end up repeating something someone else has
already mentioned.

--- Tango For Her <tangopeer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Someone, PLEASE, tell me why soooo many teachers teach
> young followers to s-s-s-s-stretch their leg out,
> really far, in a backstep!!!  Is that the only way to
> teach them to have a straight knee and a beautiful
> leg?  Can't they have it with a shorter backstep like,
> say, in the same county?

Here teachers confuse length of the body with length along
the floor.  If a follower learns to use the length of her
body, a properly-sized step will follow.  Followers tend to
take small steps if they initiate the back step with their
knee or the middle of the thigh.  If you teach them to step
where the leg rotates in the hip socket.  This fixes a lot
of the problem.

Trini de Pittsburgh





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