5511  What strong connection IS NOT ..

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:13:45 -0800
From: "Igor Polk" <ipolk@virtuar.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] What strong connection IS NOT ..
To: <tango-l@mit.edu>

Michael:
"..if the definition of connection is the wonderful, exchange of emotional
energy.."

Strong connection IS NOT an exchange of emotional energy.
This is another tango myth that it is.

Emotional connection has nothing to do with quality of dancing in all
styles.
Yes, good dancing give birth to emotional connection, but thinking about it
in the opposite way, it is like fixing the car engine from the trunk.

This tango myth was born by people who had difficulty explaining on a
physical level what a dancing connection is. They used poetry instead of
craft.

And when people start dancing - they need craft.
Otherwise they got sloppy.

Igor Polk

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:07:28 -0800 (PST)
From: "Trini y Sean (PATangoS)" <patangos@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] What strong connection IS NOT ..


--- Igor Polk <ipolk@virtuar.com> wrote:

> Emotional connection has nothing to do with quality of
> dancing in all styles. Yes, good dancing give birth to

emotional connection, but thinking about it in the opposite
way, it is like fixing the car engine from the trunk.

I disagree. The mind/psyche and body are so interconnected
that what affects one will affect the other. Good
technique will free up the body, which can free up the mind
and one's emotional state. But one can also affect the
body by thinking of something or recalling an emotion -
like the way actors do.

How you think/feel about something can cause the body to
relax (or tense up) and move more freely (or more stiffly),
enabling a better (or worse) physical connection.

So, if I'm not feeling a good connection with my partner,
sometimes I'll say to myself, "this guy is my favorite
dancer in the room", even if he isn't. This puts me in a
happy state and helps me relax. And this helps me get a
much better connection.

Trini de Pittsburgh

PATangoS - Pittsburgh Argentine Tango Society
Our Mission: To make Argentine Tango Pittsburgh?s most popular social dance!
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:07:37 -0800
From: "Igor Polk" <ipolk@virtuar.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] What strong connection IS NOT ..

Ok, Trini,
I can give now an advice which will improve the connection right away for
many men:

Nice silky shirt instead of a worn-out cotton long-sleeve one will make a
revolutionary change in connections !

Igor.
PS. We can find dozens of advices like that, useful - but it can not replace
real strong dancing connection. And developing of this connection requires a
lot of things (several posts noted some of them) which have nothing to do
with emotions.. Fortunately, there is no magic and it is doable.

Ultimately, developing a connection is the same like developing quality
dancing. It never ends. I mean connection with a really good dancer, not
with your beloved half when any step together feels great!