[Tango-L] How many figures do you need?

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Hi Michael,


you need all steps, as much as you like, it's not that you have to 
dance them all, but you need them for to study, for improvising, to 
become free, so that you can dance, walk in any direction, you can 
turn to the right, to the left, you can dance voleos, sacadas etc etc 
in nearly every position YOU like. 
to dance like the great dancers like Lampazo, El Negro Portaleo, 
Gavito, or walk like Juan Carlos Copes, that way of dancing you don't 
learn by only walking. It's not that easy. It's like art, and to 
dance art you have to leave away, you see what you don't dance, thats 
contents. All famous milongueros, we all love how they dance, they 
studied hundreds of figures. Picaso could paint everything in detail 
but with one line he painted his famous bull, because he studied 
every detail to know what is the sintesis, its similar with to dance 
tango, the more you can the less you need....
The new generation milongueros Rivarola, Veron, Chicho, Naveira, 
Zotto (Miguel) and other good dancers of this generation they all 
studied with maestros who teached figures (Todaro, Lampazo, Miguel, 
Pepito, etc etc). In the salon you don't see them dancing figures but 
they can dance in any direction, in every situation they dance, 
because there bodies are used to move in all directions, to improvise 
in every situation...so you will become free to dance your tango.


regards,

Ricardo
"El holandés"




Ricardo & Rotraut
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