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

[Sergey Kazachenko]

This is the beginning, but he was going into more and more details.
For example, if I remember correctly, instead of your "4 different sacadas"
he would count 6 - L/R foot, done with front cross, back cross and open.
Also he would count an extra variation done with both feet at the same time
- it looked like a jump that was so out of place in tango. I have never ever
seen him or anyone else doing that jumpy sacada with both feet, but it was
included for the purpose of classification. I got lost somewhere there, but
there were more and more minute variations that were bringing the total
count to hundreds.

Sergey

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Nussbaum, Martin <mnussbau at law.nyc.gov>wrote:

>
> 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
>