[Tango-L] 1000 sacadas? More like 48. Was - how many figures

Nussbaum, Martin mnussbau at law.nyc.gov
Mon May 11 13:03:28 EDT 2009


 
Sergey says a friend of his came up with 1000 sacadas?   Please show
them to me.
>From a pure sturcutral anlaysis, by my calculation there are only 48.
Here is my analysis:
Lets start with leader doing sac to follower. There are only 3 steps
involving full weight shift  for follower in tango.   Front cross, back
cross, and open.   They can be done with two different feet. So thats a
total of six positions available to sacada.    For each step of
follower, lets say right open step, the leader  could do 4 different
sacadas to her departing left foot;  front sac with right or left, back
sac with right or left.  (Side sacadas by leader are just a  variety of
one of above, it makes no difference to me whether your angle of
approach is 90 degress, 85 degrees, 45 degrees, etc.) 
So that makes 24 for leader.   The follower could be led to do the same
to the leader. So that gives you another 24 for a total of 48 sacadas.
-Martin Nussbaum 




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