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Re: [TANGO-L] The Shape of the Molinete/Giro.
It is always a square. The further away the follower
is from the leader, the bigger the follower's steps
must be to fit the square around the larger circle.
Beg to differ. It should be the shape led. Granted that men
are all taught to make the dance square (12 o'clock, 3 o'clock,
6 o'clock, 9, o'clock), but there's always that special situation
calling for something different.
Adding or subtracting some angle in the pivot can make
challenging things much easier, especially when entering or
leaving a giro.
The problem I have found with "close embrace all the
time" followers, is that their steps ARE ALWAYS
SMALL, because they were only trained to dance close
to their partner.
You must have a limited experience of "close embrace all the time"
followers. Again, the side of the step they should take is the size
of step the leader asks of them, ni mas, ni meno.
When I lead correctly, I have no problems getting even moderately
experienced "close embrace all the time followers" to take long elegant
steps.
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"Close embrace all the time people" need to practice
taking very beautiful long and elegant large steps to
make the square fit around a large circle. Then
things will work much better for them.
As steps get progressively longer than shoulder width (16 to 22
inches), the difficulty of making clean weight transfers increases
geometrically.
It's unkind to inexperienced followers to ask them to step much
more than 18 inches at a time, and rarely necessary in social
dance anyway.