1909  hip wiggling

Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:54:40 -0400
From: jhapark@PENNSWOODS.NET
Subject: hip wiggling

Is anyone familiar with or seen the style of a follower "wiggling hips" during a tango?
-J

Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:53:08 -0700
From: Ed Loomis <TangoBear@OSBTOWN.COM>
Subject: (fwd) [TANGO-L] hip wiggling

No, but I shall endeavor to watch even more closely in the future......
Ed

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:54:40 -0400, jhapark@PENNSWOODS.NET wrote:

>Is anyone familiar with or seen the style of a follower "wiggling hips" during a tango?
>-J

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:33:07 +0900
From: astrid <astrid@RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP>
Subject: Re: hip wiggling

Is anyone familiar with or seen the style of a follower "wiggling hips"
during a tango?
-J

I cannot tell you very much, as I am a novice in the field of tangoesque hip
wiggling. Used to think, this just not on. Apparently, there are times when
it is.
It is not just the follower wiggling hips, and the hip wiggling, if we are
talking about the same thing, is entirely led by the man. And it is not the
same as hip wiggling in salsa, but rather a very subtle weight shift
swinging the hips just slightly to the side while keeping the tension in the
muscles and the joints (I mean, you don't crack into that bend like in
salsa), and maybe a teeny bit diagonally forward, like a micro version of
the belly- dance-like hip swing of a flamenco dancer doing a long step
forward.
I learned that yesterday for the first time. My teacher danced with my
partner, doing the follower's part, and told me to stand behind him, and
move with him. Then he put my hands on the sides of his buttocks, and
said:"Stop giggling, and feel what I am doing!" So I got an idea of how the
muscles move in this movement, and managed to produce something similar.
This, combined with little milonga steps to the side and back, and inline
walking in the formation of two bodies lying on top of each other aligned,
and turned into the vertical plane, is not for the faint at heart...

; )
Astrid

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:42:58 +0000
From: Jay Rabe <jayrabe@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: hip wiggling

At the just-concluded (and hugely successful) 2003 TangoFest in Portland,
Juan Nieto showed a technique wiggling the lovely Chelsea Eng's hips in one
of his classes. She had full weight on her right foot, with the left crossed
over in front at the ankle, facing to the left with her hips 90deg from his.
His right arm was firmly around her back grasping her side under her armpit.
From there he gently rocked her torso back and forth (sort of a quick
circular rocking, CW-CCW) and the movement translated into wiggling her
hips.


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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:36:31 -0700
From: luda_r1 <luda_r1@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: hip wiggling

Astrod wrote:

"I cannot tell you very much, as I am a novice in the
field of tangoesque hip
wiggling. Used to think, this just not on. Apparently,

there are times when
it is.
It is not just the follower wiggling hips, and the hip

wiggling, if we are
talking about the same thing, is entirely led by the
man. And it is not the
same as hip wiggling in salsa, but rather a very
subtle weight shift
swinging the hips just slightly to the side while
keeping the tension in the
muscles and the joints (I mean, you don't crack into
that bend like in
salsa), and maybe a teeny bit diagonally forward, like

a micro version of
the belly- dance-like hip swing of a flamenco dancer
doing a long step
forward.
I learned that yesterday for the first time. My
teacher danced with my
partner, doing the follower's part, and told me to
stand behind him, and
move with him. Then he put my hands on the sides of
his buttocks, and
said:"Stop giggling, and feel what I am doing!" So I
got an idea of how the
muscles move in this movement, and managed to produce
something similar.
This, combined with little milonga steps to the side
and back, and inline
walking in the formation of two bodies lying on top of

each other aligned,
and turned into the vertical plane, is not for the
faint at heart..."

That about sums it up. I believe it is the same move
that Mimi Santapa calls a "cadencia", a sinuous,
serpentine, sensuous affair, quite an eyeful when done
right. Yup, definitely not for the faint of heart!
:)))))

Luda


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