That would hold if the 20's hadn't been the 'roaring 20's' after WW1, although you could take it that the message was received 2nd time round.
Desperately needed for both boys and girls.
Ah… if only that were so! Plenty of bad habits in CE (speaking as a practitioner of bad habits
)I'm going to guess FKK related. A concept of sticking together.
Our coach made us do the ball/balloon exercise weekly for years. What happens if you screw up any part of it is that the ball or balloon ends up on the floor and you know you screwed up.
The best version is for both leader and follower not to use arms at all. Lean in, share weight, get those arms out of there, and communicate entirely through torso contact. At first, even walking is tricky. This afternoon, we managed our entire vocabulary except colgadas: volcadas, ganchos, boleos, leg entanglements, turns of all kinds, etc.. It only took four years of doing it weekly.
I like doing the half versions too: only the left side of the embrace, and only the right side of the embrace. I think it helps diagnose where and how we actually use arms. While i tend to claim that in close embrace the arms are mostly decoration and not "load bearing" i think that in practice they help a lot to make the dance smoother and nicer and to recover from problems. Other exercises are having only the leader use the embrace, or only the follower use a embrace - homer called this the "little teapot exercise" because the non-embracing person basically does the teapot thing from the song.
That is one of the things that i find really fascinating - post "the great war" the tone of the cultural climate was incredibly optimistic. Not in the sense that the things were substantially better, but there seemed to be a sense of "the dark ages are over, we are now modern people, and we will do modern and better things". The response to verdun was "now war is impossible, nobody will want to do something like this again", while the response to hiroshima was "very soon there will be a nuclear wall, and all life on earth will become extinct". One of the things that would be really interesting to do proper research on (or to find the people who already have done proper research)
I'm surprised you know or use the german abbreviation!
Is it more like ballroom tango? No? Please explain...
And as a newcomer, that's what I'm seeing in tango; a majority of dancers are people who need hugs, lots of them, and tango is something to do while getting (long) hugs from people, including strangers, until they need to get more hugs from the next person.
That was just normal life in most of Europe, albeit with regional variations. A milonga is a social event with friends. It's how many greet friends, and even strangers - except there's a pandemic with an airborne virus, so prolonged proximity isn't a great idea.
Pretty accurate description for many until they become obsessed with the dance itself and it’s mind boggling technical demands!
Wholeheartedly agree with this premise and it applies to partner dancing in general too. I'm definitely willing to admit that I am one such person who likes lots of hugs and touching.
