Re: [TANGO-L]

[Nicole Dowell <bailadora2000 @excite.com>]

 --- On Thu 10/10, Jonathan Thornton  wrote:
"Technique is to be practised until it can be forgotten in the
dance. Like playing scales and fingering exercises it's necessary but it's
not the song. The song can be heard in the heart and danced from the heart.
The head has done its job in the hours, weeks, years of
preparation. It now needs to give way to the heart and allow it to dance
the feeling truth in the music."


I like how you put that Jonathon.  It's so true.  There are people out
there that are good dancers, and those that are good technicians, but the
ones who can use the technique to train their bodies to move to what their
hearts and souls feel, are the best dancers.  (same can be said for
musicians, singers and artists)

 I've been dancing since I could walk, but when I first started my
professional training in technique (as a competitive dancer)... I forgot
how to dance.  I remember training at the studio hours every day, and then
I went out one night after my first couple weeks of intense training, and I
couldn't dance.  My feet, my body, nothing moved right.  I was thinking too
much.

Technique is definately useful and I do believe its how any artist (singer, dancer, musician, etc) can excel in their art, but it's not something you can think about
after the music starts.  Technique should be practiced as an exercise over
and over and over and over until your body just knows what it's supposed to
do, without you worrying about it.  Then when the music starts...just let
your body move.  Forget all the technique because it won't tell you how to
dance.  Only your heart and soul as it listens to the music will tell you
that.  You train your body with technique just to make the message your heart and soul is trying to give as clear as possible.

Nicole
Miami


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