Re: [TANGO-L] Question about Tango technique

[Carlos Rojas <Crojas @HACIENDACDC.ORG>]

Take tango for what it is, a popular dance.  That means that you dance the
way you walk (true of all popular dances).  That is all the biomechanical
insigt one needs.
If you go on a walk in the park with a woman holding to your arm, does it
matter if she is tall or short?, slim or fat? Has a blue or red dress?, then
is the same dancing any popular dance.
3 hours of walking is enough to make anyone tire, so chances are you are
just tired, even if you are just 22 Y.O..


Carlos Rojas
Portland, OR

-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of Any Aspect of the Argentine Tango
[mailto:TANGO-L   @MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Emre Demiralp
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:23 AM
To: TANGO-L   @MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [TANGO-L] Question about Tango technique

Hi everyone,
   I have started dancing tango when I was 20 (two years ago) and recently
I have started learning and practicing classical ballet as an amateur. The
Vaganova ballet syllabus is very precise and strict about being on your
and maintaining your axis and other biomechanics that tango is much more
loose about. And you can't really cheat your way around it.
  Occasionally I go back and do tango and recognize that I slowly start to
loose my posture after 2-3 hours of dancing. I have asked why this could
be happening to some people with ballet,tango,ballroom and salsa
background. Is it true that there's some natural imbalance in the tango
embrace ? (That's compared to classical ballet) I also heard that it
depends largely on the girl you dance with... If she has control and
balance in her movements and etc. If you think about it with your left
hand extended out and right hand wrapped around the lady, it's natural
that you will have imbalanced muscle development on your upper back. ie
your muscles on the right-upper-back will be over developed and etc.
Things are a lot worse when it comes to height difference. But are there
any articles you can point me to. Or any biomechanical insights... Is
there tango movement constructed around perfect alignment with your axis ?
It seems not to me... Maybe I need to be stronger with my ballet posture
before coming back into tango not to be losing it during social dancing...

Non technical opinions are also welcome!

Thank you for your time... And please send this information to my personal
email address unless you are also raising questions or wishing insight
from the experience of this valuable newsgroup or think that it will be
valuable to the group.

Best

Emre
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Also... as a...computer scientist and from my minimal experience in audio
engineering...

There are mathematically lossless audio formats. (Which I think Windows
Media Player carries) That means you can have all the digital information
in half or 3/4 the space. A CD with mathematically lossless compression
algorithm usually can compress 700-800MB audio data down to from 300 MB -
500 MB (Classical, Tango music and such will be on the higher end of this
space requirement where as digitally composed music such as Pop&Techno and
etc will be on the lower end -- at least it was with the pseudo algorithm
I worked on) And there will actually be no audio information lost in this
compression. So you can squeeze more into that 250GB disk of yours :)

   Now what people say about sound cards, cables etc is another bottleneck
and surely effects the audio quality. But again I guess all this technical
discussion has not much to do with TANGO... And I wish there were more
good quality live orchestras in USA to dance to instead of DJed work.

-Best ... again ...

Emre

PS: If you have read this far you can read further I guess:... Istanbul
Tango Rocks. I recommend it to everybody to visit Turkey and dance tango
there. Great historic venues, international crowd etc... My two cents.