[Tango-L] How to put some oomph into your lead

[uja]

Hi Mario,
The first thing I noticed when the video started was the song being played. It's Viejo Porton by Rodolfo Biagi with Teofilo Ibanez as the singer. Some of the vals by Biagi are my all-time favorites. The others are:  Lejos De Tí - Loca De Amor - El Ultimo Adios.

 
They are so incredibly "beautiful" to me that words cannot describe what I feel when I listen to them. The songs just "move me" like no other vals. When I hear them played at a milonga I am immediately transformed. All I want is to find a woman to dance with so we can dance together with the music. What can I say I'm hooked on tango music. Btw, there are 100s of other songs that move me too.
 
We all realize this is a subjective experience.
 
>From my own personal experience, when I became more proficient in:
knowing the music
knowing how to move
knowing how to navigate
knowing how to embrace
knowing a few steps - especially how to walk
<Did I leave anything out> like connection
 
Then I became more confident in how I danced and I began noticing that I was dancing with more oomph. And boy oh boy do I have a lot more to learn.
 
 
 
 
 
From: Mario <sopelote at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] How to put some oomph into your lead
To: "TANGO-L" <tango-l at mit.edu>
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011, 12:48 AM

This is an interesting and helpful (for the lead) factoid that I picked up from a couple websites devoted to tango it's called 'shooting the feet' or 'walking on cobble stones.' Here's a good example with the performance dance of Jorge Firpo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_86QW0UjIg

Note that there is no lackadaisacal walking in this dance..no loosly taking a step but rather a strong marking of the step...I could show videos of the opposite of this but it would be unfair 'cause the dancers are usually beginners. Of course we are talking about traditional Argentine tango dancing here.