[Tango-L] Nuevo lead and follow and repressed teaching

[Niki Papapetrou]

exactly

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Astrid <astrid at ruby.plala.or.jp> wrote:

> The idea is to find an instructor who is able to teach you what you need to
> know. Tango is not really about where you put your legs, the lead comes
> first, the legs follow that.
>
>
> Niki Papapetrou wrote:
>
>> from my own personal experience, I stopped taking classes in my home town
>> because the classes were all about STEPS ('put your left leg here, and then
>> your right leg there...' ) I could just as easily practice technique in  a
>> milonga or in my own living room, without the 'pleasure ' of being
>> manhandled by some guy who was simply trying to get his feet in the right
>> spot, without it even crossing his, or the instructor's, mind that he
>> actually needed to learn how to  LEAD.
>>
>
>


-- 
Yours in dance dementia,
Niki

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