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All of the channels abusing the name of Richard Feinman are AI generated and most of the explanations are way outside what was his actual expertise - physics. It is a mystery how he has created all these videos when he died in 1988. The throwawy of all those pictorial diagrams is a also a...

Sorry - I cannot resist! Perfection! What even is perfection? Whose perfection? Hers? Yours? For both? Certainly your perfection would not be mine. If it exists, perfection in dance is transitory. Especially in Tango.

I recall a comment on an unrelated platform about how we live in vain times. What we look like seems prioritised over what we do. Social AT is not photogenic and photographs with both faces have to be posed. There is a teacher local to me who teaches "Tango" in such a pose - a rigid hold with...

30 minutes!! That is 27 minutes too long.

Faced with this incessant analysis of what is a typically physically tormented and physically damaging performance, yet you compliment it, it really should be time for me to unsubscribe. I want to see no more and hear no more. This is not an example that social and/or amateur dancers should be...

This thread is rapidly crystallising the reasons why I don't spend time arguing the opposite (both dance and music) on this forum any more.

No-one should have to ask. The act of photography is intrusive of social dance. We are not performing seals.

My unasked for photo was amongst a group of pics of the event posted on Facebook. I expressed my discontent to the photographer about photos in general. Next time he was at an event I attended he posted more pics amongst which was the happy smiling face of my dancing partner. I was only...

Seems tangomanic to me!l In any case the name is Tango Argentino . . .

Thanks for the clarification. I agree with the slight disassociation when walking which takes time and effort to find and incorporate. As you say it's almost invisible but a partner can feel it. Some early teachers of mine used to talk about moving before you move but never explained. This...

I was considering Ricardo Vidort - not really his partner. In the Solace extract Bailango posted he stated that something along the lines he is dancing for his partner. He accommodates whoever he is dancing with. The two clips of him with Myriam Pincen demonstrate that most clearly - she has...

Here I disagree with Ricardo slightly with his hand demonstration. Put your hands together as he does and press the fingers together a little harder - you will find that the hands tend to reverse bend a little no matter how you resist., rather like a real ladder does when loaded with someone...

This relates to a stance from an earlier time - suggest you seek Esther Gokahle on the Interweb. Her observations are useful - her recommendations not always. Your whole torso (and head) remains in-line while slightly hinged from the hip joints. Here is a video of Ricardo Vidort dancing at...

Yes I know that is taught but my reference isn't teaching and of course you are right about the disadvantages of excessive distance. Dance isn't static so even this distance can disappear and I work from the basis that it's the man's role to know exactly where he is taking his partner and take...

Thank you for clarifying what you think abrazo/embrace is - but sadly you prove my point that the Argentine way is not being taught since their contact point is the upper chest - way higher than the solar plexus. In theory there is no lower body contact although even this is subject to...

I can only write about my own experiences, everything else is mere observation, photographs and video and film are mostly utterly misleading for almost all social dance, not just Tango. As a personal example I was first taught Tango in a semi-open Vee hold, man's left hand extended to hold...

It's never too late to embrace. There is a lot to like in this photo but an Argentine embrace isn't "full contact" - think more of the two partners both in an Argentine "man hug". It is disappearing even in Buenos Aires.

The Périphérique is always a nightmare but for real scary try riding round the Arc de Triomphe on a motorbike!

So You Think You Can Dance, nor any dance performance competition, has nothing to do with social dancing. Best accept that all judging of dance performance is necessarily subjective. Emotion demonstrated in dance is not likely to be real emotion, by necessity it's all an act. Showing emotion...

I wasn't looking at the wider world around but at you, and you, and you, and you on here! Those who display in order to dissect and demonstrate should understand the why and the what of what it is they are dissecting.