Your 2010 AT resolutions?

[Light Sleeper]

I will do my best to avoid getting drawn into pointless debates..
Oh blast, I've already failed!

But, Zoops, that's the whole point of the AT forum!!

I don't do resolutions, just ongoing 'must try harder' thoughts (ie, you know, keep up with pilates exercises and not be such a lazy mare)

Also - I'd like to find a UK seller that sells those nice cropped pants (but not the ones that gather at the hem, I look a right short a**e in those - just don't have the ankles for them, duckie)... anyone know where you can get them?

 

[Zoopsia59]

I'd like to find a UK seller that sells those nice cropped pants (but not the ones that gather at the hem, I look a right short a**e in those - just don't have the ankles for them, duckie)... anyone know where you can get them?

Just buy a pair that gather that are a smidge longer than you need and cut off the gathered part. Or pull out the elastic if its a separate band inside a pocket rather than sewn through all around.

 

[Heather2007]

Also - I'd like to find a UK seller that sells those nice cropped pants (but not the ones that gather at the hem, I look a right short a**e in those - just don't have the ankles for them, duckie)... anyone know where you can get them?

Try the Pineapple Dance Studios and Bloch in Covent Garden.

p.s. Also, read a wonderful article today about the real Don Draper. Yep, there was such a person...and...his name was Draper (piccy too and just as handsome) Roll on the 21st. Happy New Year LS.

 

[dchester]

After giving it a lot of thought, I'm going to try to improve my dancing from mediocre up to average.

 

[Light Sleeper]

Just buy a pair that gather that are a smidge longer than you need and cut off the gathered part. Or pull out the elastic if its a separate band inside a pocket rather than sewn through all around.

Thanks, Zoops, for that idea - I've seen a pair I like with a hem so I might take a punt.

Try the Pineapple Dance Studios and Bloch in Covent Garden.

p.s. Also, read a wonderful article today about the real Don Draper. Yep, there was such a person...and...his name was Draper (piccy too and just as handsome) Roll on the 21st. Happy New Year LS.

HNY to you, too, Heath Ooooh, can't wait to come to the smoke again! I'll give those shops a try.

Roll on the 21st indeed! Oooh, I shall try and find that article online! I wonder if tango was big in NY in the early 60s

 

[Mladenac]

Wishes:
I need to find a partner. I can't go to workshops without a partner.
I can't practice later, so I waste my money.

I will probably start teaching AT (some privates).

Resolution:
Put more effort to communications with partner (verbal and nonverbal)
By another pair of sneaker or two.
Make strategic plan on festivals cause every week there is some festival in the surroudings.
(which partner, program, expenses)

 

[newbie]

"Find a partner who will actually attend the classes" but of course it's more a wish than a resolution. Note that I have lowered my expectations. At the beginning I've been trying to find a partner with whom I could train and practice between the classes. How young and naive I was.

 

[Dave Bailey]

"Find a partner who will actually attend the classes" but of course it's more a wish than a resolution. Note that I have lowered my expectations. At the beginning I've been trying to find a partner with whom I could train and practice between the classes. How young and naive I was.

Yeah, tell me about it.

 

[Madahlia]

Yeah, tell me about it.

This I find hard to believe!


Re the Spanish vocab, you can find the lyrics and English translations of many popular tango tunes by typing the track name into Google. It's quite amusing finding out what they are actually singing about and certainly helps me to "fix" vocab in my mind as I'm likely to hear it again and again.

 

[bordertangoman]

I intend to improve my ADD by imp...ooh look there's a bird flying

 

[Captain Jep]

This I find hard to believe!

You think dance partners grow on trees? heh if only...

 

[Mario7]

"Find a partner who will actually attend the classes" but of course it's more a wish than a resolution. Note that I have lowered my expectations. At the beginning I've been trying to find a partner with whom I could train and practice between the classes. How young and naive I was.

Yes, what is it that makes such a reasonable quest soooo difficult to complete?? Why is it soooo difficult to find a practice partner for work
between classes/dances? any ideas?

 

[Lilly_of_the_valley]

I think, because at some point a follower realizes that

- practicing with the same partner makes her learn to compensate for the above mentioned partner's quirks, and not much more

-that unlearning the above mentioned bad habits acquired from working with the same amateur partner requires time and money spent on private lessons (that could have been much more effectively spent on private lessons right from the start anyway)

-committed partnerships are not easy. Working in close quarters with a person who is trying to learn a complicated skill of leading might become stressful on many occasions. If the partner is her significant other, it would probably be fine, but if he is just a random person, it is very often not worth the bother, especially considering that

-a lot of stuff a follower may and should practice upon does not require a partner.

 

[Zoopsia59]

I think, because at some point a follower realizes that

- practicing with the same partner makes her learn to compensate for the above mentioned partner's quirks, and not much more

-that unlearning the above mentioned bad habits acquired from working with the same amateur partner requires time and money spent on private lessons (that could have been much more effectively spent on private lessons right from the start anyway)

-committed partnerships are not easy. Working in close quarters with a person who is trying to learn a complicated skill of leading might become stressful on many occasions. If the partner is her significant other, it would probably be fine, but if he is just a random person, it is very often not worth the bother, especially considering that

-a lot of stuff a follower may and should practice upon does not require a partner.

Totally agree with all of the above except the bit about being her sig. other. I think maybe your sig other is the LAST person you should try to learn with... so many things to fight about! So many other issues that you will bring into your dance time or take from the dance into the rest of your relationship. Right up there with "traveling", "having kids" and "investing your money" in potential for relationship stress over negotiating conflicting ideas or values. For some people it could be the glue that binds... for others it could just be damaging to the relationship.

But I totally agree that practicing with one partner does not benefit a follower much unless they are going to form a performing partnership and are rehearsing. To learn to follow well, a follower must dance with as many different people as possible, and the less accustomed to them she is, the better for her development of following skills.

 

[Mario7]

I think, because at some point a follower realizes that
- practicing with the same partner makes her learn to compensate for the above mentioned partner's quirks, and not much more
-that unlearning the above mentioned bad habits acquired from working with the same amateur partner requires time and money spent on private lessons (that could have been much more effectively spent on private lessons right from the start anyway)
-committed partnerships are not easy. Working in close quarters with a person who is trying to learn a complicated skill of leading might become stressful on many occasions. If the partner is her significant other, it would probably be fine, but if he is just a random person, it is very often not worth the bother, especially considering that
-a lot of stuff a follower may and should practice upon does not require a partner.

Thanks for the considered reply. I will go back to offering practice to beginners then. It should cancel out some of the negatives you listed.
Could you list those practices that a woman should do when alone? I will pass them along, too. thanks!