Two dances from one and the same event, one of them decent, the other absolutely awful, total disgrace. But, 99% of the tangeros can't see the difference. It is precisely why not many people can actually dance well. I chose choreographed pieces delibarately.
Those, who don't see the difference, can't be motivated to spend the hundreds of hours, training the special way of walking/stepping/leading/following needed to dance this unique dance - everybody knows how this technique is vital for tango, but very few people actually understand how far are they from really doing it correctly. And you can't learn something you don't see.
Here is a short clip from a lesson, all the most important things in the walking, (leading and following in the step), are unusually easy to spot, but only if you know what to look for:
Thursday, 4 March 2010
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