DonMickey84
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Hi guys,
May you tell me how is the Backward Walks in International Tango. Thank you so much!
May you tell me how is the Backward Walks in International Tango. Thank you so much!
Tango Backward Walks
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DonMickey84
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My teacher told that instead of lift the moving foot also, we glide. Is it true?
DonMickey84
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So, picking up and placing or sliding and gliding? And how? Help me my guys...
DonMickey84
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I do know this, the only thing I care is that whether the moving foot is contact the floor or not when steping backward? Who say that? Thanx
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DonMickey84
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So the next time I meet my teacher I'm going to teach she back, I agree with you. Anyway in case she ask where I base on, will I answer that it's tangotime at DF who says?
Be more precise.. this is the theory that Scrivener taught for many yrs..
Tango is a " pick and place " concept .
One cannot learn dancing from vedio or from descriptions. Your teacher will show you how to do the tango walk, forward and backward. You learn by feeling how it is done with the instruction that is given by your teacher. Good teachers give you the true feeling by dancing with you and you try to remember the feeling using your own interpretation of that feeling. That is why learning to dance correctly is expensive. Do you know how many years the top pros spend so that they can dance so effortlessly?
madmaximus
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People on this board are the most knowledgeable and helpful I have seen on the web---and personally I'm happy to help here and there---but without specifics, your question becomes difficult to answer (considering also that the medium is text).
What you must understand DM84 is that simply asking how to do backward walks in Tango may seem specific enough to you---but trying to answer that question (from the perspective of the very experienced dancers who respond here) will require, quite literally, a small novella.
Consider also that the technique (or rather the focus of the technique) taught to a bronze dancer would be different from that of a championship dancer (not to mention a few schools of thought on how BTango movement is executed)
To answer your question in a general way, here's a few tips applicable to your question:
-- More focus or attention is placed on how you peel your foot off the floor-- like TT said, "pick and place" (best advice you'll get for BT).
-- Choose where and how you will use staccato action (using the feet/legs), to give emphasis to where you do the snaps.
-- Compress-- flex/bend your knees to a certain height and then keep moving at that level.
-- Keep your knees close together.
-- And here's an important one: move your free foot only when your weight is mostly transferred (fair warning: there are particulars about this that you should ask your teacher--as there are different schools of thought)
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Warren J. Dew
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I'm not sure what you mean by "reverse", but it is not a time reversal: forward walks curve left, while backward walks curve right.
I am smiling at the picture of the student telling the instructor, "but Scrivener says I should pick the foot up off the floor!" I wonder if the instructor knows who Scrivener was.
LOL !!.. probably not . Kinda astounding, seeing as every Prof and Amat. dancing Standard, are directly impacted to a small or larger degree by him( and Jacques).
I wasn't consciously aware that backward walks curved on the other circle actually... It makes a lot of sense considering that backward walks are forward walks for the partner and therefore have to curve to their left.
The follow would end up outside partner after the lead's right foot walk if they were going around the wrong circle, correct?