[Tango-L] Smooth Tango - feeling - style

[Noughts]

Thanks Sergio ;-)

Nice that you say I dance like Chicho.  He definitely has had the most
influence in his tempo, timing and footwork.  :-)   I had students
come back from BA recently who saw him dance, but did not know who he
was.  Then they had enough naivety to say, "that dude dances like
Damian" when it is 100% the other way, but it was a great compliment
for me anyway :-)  Chicho laughed when I told him ;-)

The video that you picked out, our most recent was after Julz and I
had not danced together for about 6 months.  I now live 2 hours flight
away from her, so we were very very rusty - I still prefer an older
one to Malena (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtC274rrGSk) when we had
had more time dancing together regularly.. once every 6 months is not
enough at the moment...

"I agree
that open-embrace adopts an expanded set of (usually rote-learned)
figures comprising a number of steps, mostly adaptations of
performance or demonstration (no judgement intended here)"

I would disagree with this.  Open, learned correctly is the same as
closed, but open.... sorry but for me, it's that simple.  Both have
their own axis and both work with chest leads....

Damian