[Tango-L] Ballroom vs Tango: Cross feet

[Michael]

Carol:
Based on my interpretation of your descriptions, Samba walks (couple is side to side) is done on PARALLEL feet. When they change sides, the couple is doing shadow botta fogoes. However, they are on PARALLEL feet because they are changing their position relative to each other. Yes, the woman is in front of the man, but sometimes she is on his left and other times on his right. It's called shadow botta fogoes because the man's inside foot lines up with the wmoan's inside foot. (When the woman is on his left, his left foot lines up with her right foot. whenthe woman is on his right, her left foot lines up with his right foot.) If you're coming to Atlanta Tango Festival, I can better illustrate.

My ballroom instructor doesn't use the terms parallel and cross feet. She just says "hold on 2" or "hold on 3" etc. But I'm skipping a step for all shadow position figures requiring cross feet.

Michael
I'd rather be dancing Argentine Tango

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carol Shepherd" <arborlaw at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Ballroom vs Tango: Cross feet


Sounds like "shadowing" = "mirroring".

As I'm writing this I see what Michael is saying -- I can think of 
several figures in many traveling ballroom dances, where lead and follow 
are both on L, then they are both on R.  Either when they are side to 
side traveling down the line of dance (American samba), or when they are 
stepping across and outside partner in one direction, then in the other 
direction, in a zig zag, as they travel around in the line of dance.  I 
forget what that figure is called, it has an elegant name.  But it is 
definitely outside partner, and it is definitely on the same foot (both 
on L, both on R) for the lead and the follow).

Someone's changing feet to get into and out of that (ie, hidden step, 
stutter step, held for two beats) to get into that...probably the lead, 
right?