Dave Bailey
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Well I'm still reeling from watching that Corky clip...are you getting at those ballroom teachers again ?
Media Luna (Half Moon)
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bordertangoman
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Well I'm still reeling from watching that Corky clip...
Corky the cat?
media Luna is a phrase I have never heard used by any tango teacher
Dave Bailey
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Corky Ballas.
I think I remember doing a class with Bianca a couple of years ago when she used the tem. Although she may have simply said media giro... but as I recall it was media luna.
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Interesting reading here about the origins of Tango.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Y0...6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=andalusian tango&f=false
I didn't expect such a long link so I've checked it from preview and it seems
to work ok. The find resulted from a Google search for Andalusian Tango.
Unlike many articles about the origins it seems unbiased and part based on
contemporary writing. It puts Andalusian Tango into perspective too.
Interestingly, neither have I, but I do know that it is one of the oldest and most fundamental AT actions of the Golden Age. For obvious reasons of age (so not a criticism), nearly every teacher working today has only a passing connection with that tradition, and if they don't use the term, they almost certainly know the action, but may call it something else, or give it no name at all.
I've never heard it used in relation to AT, but it was a standard step taught for Ragtime Tango. It's anyone's guess where the term came from then.
When I've heard the term in Buenos Aires, we were talking about food. They are quite tasty, BTW.
I presume you are a leader and therefore asking from that point of view. IMO at the time you lead a Medina Luna (I am assuming here it can mean any three consecutive steps, with any starting step, of the giro), those three steps will be led differently depending on whether it is a forward, back or side step to begin with (as with a giro). The three steps themselves will be lead in a similar way to a giro except that you will need to put more intention into leading the third step (which I think is a different lead to a giro even if it is the same step) so that you can then lead the follower out of what will be an expected pattern.
Incidently, when I first started learning AT, I can recall only two classes where the term Medina Luna was used by the teacher to descibe what they were actually teaching.
spectator
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oh yeah, is "clive" actually going to any lessons or is he just teaching himself from videos? i just can't be bothered to read the thread to find out flicking through there seems to be a lot of tedious nit picking.
Zoopsia i was remembering the story of how the cottage cheese was corrupted by Omar Floyyo when he used his left foot at an angle of 43 degrees rather than the accepted 36.89 degrees and added a further step to the left as a result of losing his balance. whenever i see those naif fools doing Floyyo's ricotta thinking it to be a true cottage cheese i'm never sure whether to correct them, or accept that the beauty of the cottage cheese (so often called Kottoj ches by those mistakenly doing the ricotta) is lost to all but those left of the diaspora still surviving in a bolivian cave.
Zoopsia i was remembering the story of how the cottage cheese was corrupted by Omar Floyyo when he used his left foot at an angle of 43 degrees rather than the accepted 36.89 degrees and added a further step to the left as a result of losing his balance. whenever i see those naif fools doing Floyyo's ricotta thinking it to be a true cottage cheese i'm never sure whether to correct them, or accept that the beauty of the cottage cheese (so often called Kottoj ches by those mistakenly doing the ricotta) is lost to all but those left of the diaspora still surviving in a bolivian cave.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say, all I know is that I'm hungry now.
Perhaps DC is right and the tango words really just describe food.