[Tango-L] Learning from You Tube

[Mario]

Now that I have been dancing for 3 1/2 years I can say with confidence that YES 
one can learn from Utube. Not without cualification however. At first seeing 
such a great resource I couldn't understand why sooo many were warning NOT to 
study the dancing on these videos ...I suspected that most of the warnings were 
from teachers who wanted to preserver their status and business..and to an 
extent this was true.  I can honestly say that no close-embrace milonguero style 
teacher ever warned me off of this resource and  this too was valuable to me.  
Now,  I can say again honestly that it has taken me three years to understand 
that there is much more than what first meets the eye..in order to really 
appreciate what I was/am seeing. However, I am VERY grateful to have had and 
still have this magnificent resource to learn from.  I can't advise a newcomer 
how to use this resourse except to say ..YES, keep looking and feeling and 
observing and experiencing in your own dancing in the social dance...that which 
you observe in the social dance videos... THE important thing is to always 
distinguish the social dance vidoes from the performance videos.. one can take a 
move here or there from the performance dance but it is in the entirety of the 
social dance video wherein you will get the feel for the entire dance ... the 
dance entegral the whole dance..not just a sequence here or there...but the 
music the way it is absorbed by the dancer in the context of a floor full of 
dancers..dancing alongside you... and then to see the real milonguero dance 
alone on the floor in the performance of the social dancer is another dimension 
altogether... nothing hidden nothing added only the feeling for the movement... 
one has to discover these giants of the dance for oneself... to imagine/know 
from your own experience what is transpireing in all three dimensions of the 
dance.. simple..yet profound..and then  go for it..the man has got to give the 
woman an experience she will savor and be enthused by... the man has to give his 
all...at every moment of the music.. this is in the video but only seen by 
someone who has accumulated the necessary wins and defeats to be able to 
appreciate what he/she is seeing... don't give up! Never quit! it is all worth 
it when it does arrive in your own viscerals..in your own tripas ..in your own 
feelings... the dance is all about feeling the music... the videos show this but 
it takes time to see/experience it.  adelante!
 




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"The music makes you dance. It is so simple when one gets it. Connect with my 
partner and then connect with the music, let the music tell me how to move my 
body rather than me tell my body how to move to the music. With the right music 
and right partner, I am contented to have just one tanda a night" -Pedro Sanchez
"Life expands or contracts in direct proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin
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