4199  Desperate to learn, no teachers here. Please help

From: Barbara Garvey [mailto:barbara@tangobar-productions.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:50 PM
To: Igor Polk
Cc: TANGO-L@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [TANGO-L] Desperate to learn, no teachers here. Please help
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I have yet to find a video or DVD that could be really useful to
beginning dancers; a good 2-hour video could address walking,
lead/follow, the embrace (with variations), a salida, cadencias,
forward and back ochos. None of the ones I've seen (and I've seen most
of those easily available) try to emphasize technique which is what
beginning tango is all about, or rather what all tango is about. Maybe
there is a good beginners tape or DVD for close embrace but not that
I've seen.

Please note, we haven't seen Christy Cote's DVDs; hope to remedy that soon.

Also, although there are several good Followers' tapes, especially that
by Rebecca Shulman, the only one I know of for Leaders is superficial
and does not discuss leading, for Pete's sake....