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| Hints & Myths about
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PREVIOUS
..............................................................................Intermediate Tango
These notes
summarise a tango course given in five
parts by Rodolfo Aguerrodi & Miho
Omaki in Cambridge in 2004. The course
was aimed at people with 6+ months
experience, usually just after taking the
Cambridge Intermediate course.
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We began
with some exercises in dissociation:
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walking
back and forth across the room
individually:
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turning
the chest to face one side or the other,
while carrying
on walking smoothly in line, hips always
facing the line of walking.
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We
continued with two exercises in rhythmic
dissociation; first facing inward in a
circle:
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each
person turns the torso (not hips) to face
the neighbour on one side and claps their
hands against those of the neighbour on
one beat, then turning to face and clap
the hands of the other neighbour on the
next beat and
so on
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Then with everyone facing the
outside of a circle,:
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each
turns the torso (not hips) to face the
neighbour on one side and claps their
hands against those of the neighbour on
one beat, then turning to face and clap
the hands of the other neighbour on the
next beat and
so on
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We then
experienced the feeling by using one hand
to press against the forward part of the
armpit on the other side
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walking
back and forth across the room in couples:
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with
the leader monitoring his follower's
weight movement onto each leg, and as follower's weight
moves onto her outside leg, he turns his
chest to bring her in front or across to
the other side of him, while
carrying on
walking smoothly in line.
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walking
back and forth across the room in couples:
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with
the leader monitoring his follower's
weight movement onto each leg, and as follower's weight
moves onto her outside leg, he turns his
chest and pivots 90 so the couple face
one another in an open step along the
walking line, and
as follower's
weight moves onto her other leg, he turns
his chest and pivots 90 further so the
couple face one another in a (leader's)
backward step along the walking line, and
as follower's
weight moves onto her outside leg, he
turns his chest and pivots 90 so the
couple face one another in an open step
along the walking line, and
as follower's
weight moves onto her other leg, he turns
his chest and pivots 90 further so the
couple face one another in a (leader's)
forward step along the walking line,
while
carrying on
walking smoothly in line.
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We then practised this
move as a "people train" with
each person's hands on the shoulders of
the person in front:
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The
person at the from then initiates open,
forward, open, back steps etc in sequence
as the whole line tries to stay
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We then moved to rotary
movements based on the giro:
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in follower's practice hold; no hands
from leader |
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Follower
walks the open,backward, side, forward
steps of the giro around the reactive
leader who just holds the centre axis
facing his follower as she walks around
him |
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in follower's practice hold; leader's
right hand now embraces follower's left
shoulderblade |
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Follower
walks the open,backward, side, forward
steps of the giro around the reactive
leader who just holds the centre axis
facing his follower as she walks around
him |
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we began to test the leader's knowledge -
eyes closed - of his follower's position |
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follower
walks the giro sequence around leader but
stops for a count of 3 mid-way in each
step so leader understands the feel of
each position |
| Follower
walks around leader but stops when music
is stopped |
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leader
has to guess the current and next step
and direction |
| Follower
walks around leader but stops when music
is stopped |
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leader
- with either leg - has to touch
follower's left foot, collect, touch
follower's right foot, collect, find
follower's above knee "leg-space" |
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a discussion about where the leader
should find the follower's legs (below
her shoulders) and "leg space"
(below her head), and the 15-20cm optimum
separation distance for leader/follower
chests, the exercise was repeated |
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leader
- with specific leg - has to touch
follower's left foot, right foot or above
knee "leg-space" in each step
position on demand from teacher |
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a discussion about the importance of a
leader keeping his foot on the floor to
avoid stepping on follower' s foot etc
the exercise was repeated |
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leader
- with specific leg - has to touch
follower's inside or outside left foot,
inside or outside right foot or above
knee "leg-space" in each step
position on demand from teacher |
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NEXT
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| Explore
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Frank Morris
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