Re: [TANGO-L] Molinete/Giro

[Derik Rawson <rawsonweb@YAHOO.COM>]

Dear Igor:

She is fastest molinete dancer I have ever
> danced with!
> Vroooom-Vrooom - we spin with the speed when the
> world totally disappears in
> a crazy typhoon

> How many steps were in those molinetes? I do not
> know.
>
> Igor Polk

I totally agree with you. Who really cares how many
steps there are if th turns are fantastic, but I bet
that she does 4 teps.  You might ask her.

********

One of the reasons the follower forms a square around
a circle in a turn, is because tango steps are back
and forth or side to side. Only a square can be formed
with these kind of right angle steps.

Triangles and polygons also fit around a circle, but
they all have diagonal sides. They cannot be formed
with right angle tango steps, which are back and forth
or side to side.

PS-  I think that there are also some musical reasons
for the 4 step square in tango. Maybe a triangle works
best for the tango waltz....lol.


Derik
d.rawson@rawsonweb.com


--- Igor Polk <ipolk@VIRTUAR.COM> wrote:

> Once we had a little tango party in a park. A group
> of very old people
> watched us and then started dancing in their circuit
> too. I have noticed
> they had some dance training. I came close: "Would
> you like to try Tango?"
> and grabbed a lady. She had no idea about tango but
> I felt experience in her
> legs. I lead her into molinete. I always lead every
> step in molinete. I lead
> molinete pivots too. She was perfect as if she
> danced for 2 years!
> Resistance, easy foot work, very sensitive - it was
> a new thing for her so
> she tried to understand what I was doing. She was
> all attention. Soon the
> idea finally came to her "Oh, that is grapevine!".
> She started taking her
> steps around me. All the magic was gone.
>
> There is one woman in San Francisco. Sometimes I
> have an honor to dance with
> her. She is fastest molinete dancer I have ever
> danced with!
> Vroooom-Vrooom - we spin with the speed when the
> world totally disappears in
> a crazy typhoon. Yes, she gives excess of her energy
> to me! I accumulate it
> and return it back to her accelerating her into the
> next step.
> And what is interesting, flying around the room as
> if we want to take off to
> the moon, we never ever bumped into anything.
> (...-...) No matter what speed
> she is going, she is in total control of her moves!
> She is very sensitive:
> she can stop or change direction not on a step, but
> on any fraction of a
> step! It is amazing how we can suddenly stop
> rotating with 100 revolutions
> per second and freeze in a strictly vertical
> position %).
>
> How many steps were in those molinetes? I do not
> know.
>
> Igor Polk
>
>



		
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