[Tango-L] Using the Social dance as THE model for the student

[tony parkes]

strange michael, i see you reading yourself or something else into
what mario has written

you mentioned your teacher telling you to think on your feet. for me
that is wrong and not what mario is trying to say

after spending all those hours and years in classes, workshops etc a
point comes where you throw it out the window, or at least out of your
conscience thinking

for me the answer is to feel on your feet, feel where your partner is,
her axis, which foot, feel the music going through your body for the
one thousandth time enabling you to feel the next few bars in advance,
and so like mario said, allow a flow of energy to unfold like a river
of water. not stopping to think what is my next step


cheers
tony



On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Mario <sopelote at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> ...By reducing the repretroire of movements  the bag of tricks to 3 or 4
> figures, one can get so that they really own them...that they are unconscious
> and improvised, altered, lengthend at will... TO THE MUSIC... the music becomes
> the dance and  the dance becomes the music...unconscious, spontaneous, and the
> dancer becomes the music....  it becomes a non-thinking experience..dynamic like
> language itself.  Sounds good to me and how do we get there?   That's the
> question that the 2 and 3 years student should have the answer to.. keep it
> simple, make it part of you...own it...be it.
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cheers
tony
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