5027  Three cheers for the tango inquisition

Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:46:17 -0700
From: "Igor Polk" <ipolk@virtuar.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Three cheers for the tango inquisition
To: <tango-l@mit.edu>

Besides, men are those who "feel" the result of women's technique workshops.
It is not always pleasant.

I believe some men are much better judges of women's technique than women.
Just because they dance with so many women and know what it is about - good
technique.

But no more. Men hardly are able to tell why the technique of one woman is
better than another one. It is up to a knowledgeable teacher.

Igor

Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:15:08 +0100
From: "Chris, UK" <tl2@chrisjj.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Three cheers for the tango inquisition
To: tango-l@mit.edu

Well said, Jay. There's no such thing as women's technique. All the technique of the woman is the man's too.

"Trini y Sean (PATangoS)" <patangos@yahoo.com> wrote

> Either you have no clue about what goes on in women's
> technique workshops Chris, or you live in a tango backwater
> where teaching methodology hasn't changed in over a decade.

Correct. I live in a tango backwater deep in provincial England.

I learned (and dance) elsewhere. The women's workshops referred to are those such as I (a guy who learned as a woman) took from big-name step peddlers* that I'm sure you've heard of.

Chris

PS For avoidance of doubt, this category does not include the aforementioned Gavito!








On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:12:53 +0000, "Jay Rabe" <jayrabe@hotmail.com> said:

> As a recent thread attested, what was true in the early days of tango in
> BsAs, and is still true today, is that lots of men tango dancers are
> learning to follow, ie. learning "women's" technique. A recent segment of
> Alex Krebs' weekly men's practica here in Portland was focused completely
> on women's technique.
>
> In addition, many men on this list are teachers, which includes teaching
> women.
>
> Regardless that most men's experience base in "follower's" technique is
> much less extensive than that of most women, I think it's entirely
> appropriate for men to discuss women's technique and the problems of
> learning same.
>
> That said, I agree it's better when we come off as less than absolute
> experts ...
>
> J
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>
>
>

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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:11:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Trini y Sean (PATangoS)" <patangos@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Three cheers for the tango inquisition
To: tango-l@mit.edu


--- "Chris, UK" <tl2@chrisjj.com> wrote:

> Well said, Jay. There's no such thing as women's
> technique. All the technique of the woman is the man's
> too.

Not exactly. Women need to be more a of generalist than a
man does, simply because of what she gets asked to do at a
milonga. She needs to learn a much wider range of motion
much faster than a man does. I was reminded of that last
night as I was led to do high boleos and linear boleos
(very well, I should add), even I really don't care for
those things.

The more I learn as a follower, the more impressed I am
with how good the top women in tango must be to handle the
range of styles that they do.

Trini de Pittsburgh






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