The other would've made for a more dramatic ending to the story, but alas, it happened the way it happened. :???:
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The other would've made for a more dramatic ending to the story, but alas, it happened the way it happened. :???:
bordertangoman
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There was an Irish Icarus who tried to fly to the sun, but he was sensible, he flew at night....
Peaches
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Reminds me of DH. In school (as a music/piano performance major) he was wary of having to take the theory classes. He was concerned that if he learned all the theory behind the music it would take away from his enjoyment and possibly make his playing more mechanical than artful. What he found was that the reverse is true.
Too much thinking (or teaching) about technique can impede dancing only to the extent that you allow it to, or only to the extent that you still have to be thinking about it all the time. But once learned, either by getting someone to understand how a good hug should feel or through the more mechanical aspects of describing arm positioning, it allows for so much more freedom. It allows you to do the things you want to do (or that your partner leads you to do) much more easily, and opens up more and more possibilities. ...so long as you learn the technique well enough to be able to stop thinking about it and still have it be present in your dacning.
bordertangoman
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I AGREE having read a short history of the saxophone; what made Coltrane (and others) great was just having scales so intrinsic and fast that he played them as chords and could improvise around them. I practice hugs with my daughter; her embrace starts with a short charge....
Yeah, something I once heard co-Apple founder Steve Wozniak say (about his own ancestral group, and not Irish). He used to have a line in the Silicon Valley in Northern California that you could call in to hear his jokes that he recorded there...
larrynla
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Thinking about technique is a research tool. It helps you understand why something is a good idea or bad when performing an action. And it can help you figure out how to do better. (It can also screw you up, if the theory does not match reality.)
It's also a learning tool. It helps guide your actions while practicing.
But after a while it becomes part of your subconscious. You just automatically do something (well, if the theory was right;badly, if the theory was wrong). Thinking is a way station to intuition, to be put aside, or left to practice sessions.
This leaves you free to focus on more important stuff when you're at a milonga. Like feeling the music. And appreciating your partner. And having a good time.
It's also a learning tool. It helps guide your actions while practicing.
But after a while it becomes part of your subconscious. You just automatically do something (well, if the theory was right;badly, if the theory was wrong). Thinking is a way station to intuition, to be put aside, or left to practice sessions.
This leaves you free to focus on more important stuff when you're at a milonga. Like feeling the music. And appreciating your partner. And having a good time.
opendoor
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Re: good teacher
1) just read of the term Mushroom Management (kept in dark, fed on dung) in a forum about economics for the first time ....
2) a really good friend of mine, an uruguayan part-time tango teacher here in my town Hamburg celebrated his 60th birthday recently. Usually he is sneered at by the local tango teacher, which use to bask in the light of the flashy steps of their cool students. In contrast to this scene my friend only teaches social applicable tango in a community center. At his birthday celebration all those who consider themselves important came with their followers. But then, a very special piece of music was slipped into the playlist, a rare instrumental version of Adios Muchachos. And my friend laughed in his sleeve, cause all those stylists and show-offs hustled on the dancefloor while his brave and well trained students went to their seats....
1) just read of the term Mushroom Management (kept in dark, fed on dung) in a forum about economics for the first time ....
2) a really good friend of mine, an uruguayan part-time tango teacher here in my town Hamburg celebrated his 60th birthday recently. Usually he is sneered at by the local tango teacher, which use to bask in the light of the flashy steps of their cool students. In contrast to this scene my friend only teaches social applicable tango in a community center. At his birthday celebration all those who consider themselves important came with their followers. But then, a very special piece of music was slipped into the playlist, a rare instrumental version of Adios Muchachos. And my friend laughed in his sleeve, cause all those stylists and show-offs hustled on the dancefloor while his brave and well trained students went to their seats....
Mosca Negra
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The Academia de danza Sonia, Oviedo danced rather nicely to Adios Muchachos - without laughter from the sleeves of the audience.