[Tango-L] Overteaching

[Michael]

Lois:
I think the women you're describing are going through the learning process and they are discovering new aspects. IMHO, they obsess with "being on their own axis" so they no longer have to think or feel "Am I on my axis." There is so much to learn that after a while, dancers realize they may have been taught some aspects out of sequence. (The sequence is different for everybody.) 

If teachers just teach steps instead of the fundaments I was taught (axis, frame, posture, balance), some dancers have problems and look for the missing pieces. I was consumed by the fundamentals because I didn't pivot well. My frame was broken. I couldn't advance until these problems were fixed. OMG, the crazy things I did to improve.

Michael
Came home to New York where the Argentine Tango is better


-----Original Message-----
From: Lois Donnay
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] heels on floor?

I think there is a new thing - overteaching.  For instance - women who used to be fun to dance with, now are so obsessed with "being on their own axis" that they don't connect, or fall backwards or sideways. Perhaps we have lost something from the days when people learned just by doing.

Of course, as a person who makes her living teaching tango - I don't want that to spread around... ;) ᐧ

Loisa Donnay
Minnesota