5587  Is this good 'teaching'?

Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:42:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mario <sopelote@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] Is this good 'teaching'?
To: tango-l@mit.edu


Is good 'teaching' all about making the simple difficult?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKtQxz0mV8
What I've learned from studying language acquisition is that the
'whole' is bigger than the sum of it's parts.
Chopping a dance up into it's parts in order to learn to dance,
has it's pluses and minuses...but seeing the whole dance as a 'whole'
has only it's plusses. So, we work with this.
What I disagree with in this video, is alienating the student from
an already asimulated part of him/herself. Taking what would be familiar and making it foreign..My own belief is that fluency breeds more fluency.
..and getting away from fluency is just that..getting away from fluency.
Dances are best enjoyed when they are fluently danced.
So, I'm against practising awkwardness. What the heck are they doing, anyway??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKtQxz0mV8

Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:57:02 -0400
From: Sergey Kazachenko <syarzhuk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Is this good 'teaching'?
To: Mario <sopelote@yahoo.com>
Cc: tango-l@mit.edu
<ebb7980c0903210857m2d3e1cbdm5909c7f04def62a3@mail.gmail.com>

There's a comment right under the video explaining what's going on.
Apparently they are being filmed by a camera and the goggles show them
how they look from the side.

While I have no idea how effective this particular method, I can tell
there was more than one occasion when I looked at a video of myself
dancing and cringed at how bad my posture was. So this instant
feedback might be quite useful.

Sergey

May you be forever touched by His Noodly Appendage... (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster )



On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Mario <sopelote@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Is good 'teaching' all about making the simple difficult?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKtQxz0mV8
> What I've learned from studying language acquisition is that the
> 'whole' is bigger than the sum of it's parts.
> Chopping a dance up into it's parts in order to learn to dance,
> has it's pluses and minuses...but seeing the whole dance as a 'whole'
> has only it's plusses. So, we work with this.
> ?What I disagree with in this video, is alienating the student from
> an already asimulated part of him/herself. Taking what would be familiar and making it foreign..My own belief is that fluency breeds more fluency.
> ..and getting away from fluency is just that..getting away from fluency.
> ?Dances are best enjoyed when they are fluently danced.
> ?So, I'm against practising awkwardness. What the heck are they doing, anyway??
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKtQxz0mV8
>
>
>
>

Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:03:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Trini y Sean (PATangoS)" <patangos@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Is this good 'teaching'?



--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Mario <sopelote@yahoo.com> wrote:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKtQxz0mV8

> What I disagree with in this video, is alienating the
> student from an already asimulated part of him/herself. Taking what
> would be familiar and making it foreign..

Mario, I have no idea where you get that idea from this video. If anything, the video shows a method of creating more awareness of one's self. A lot of people think that they are standing up straight when they are actually bent forward or bent backward. In other words, what someone might think of as an assimulated part of him/herself, could actually be bad for tango.

Basically, what is happening is that some people are filming the dancers, who can watch the results of the filming in real time through the goggles that they are wearing. They get instant feedback. I think it's a pretty good use of technology.

Trini de Pittsburgh