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Digest from 19 Dec 1999 to 20 Dec 1999

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Topics of the day:

  1. what leverl of dancer are you




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Date:    Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:09:40 +0100
From:    Natarajan Balasundara <rajan @EMC.COM>
Subject: Re: what leverl of dancer are you



Original Message-----
From: Timothy Pogros <TimmyTango @aol.com>
Date: Saturday, December 18, 1999 6:17 PM


>In most cases the level at which you dance is how well you perform your
>movements, not how many dance steps you know. Whether you might call it
>Bronze, silver or gold, I feel there is a different category of levels
you
>also should consider
>It's just my opinion
>
>A beginner-needs and dances tango to choreographed steps they learned,
each
>step they perform having its own beginning, its own middle, and its own
>ending, or resolution.
>
>An intermediate dancer is able to connect or combine two or more steps
that
>they learned having only one beginning and only one resolution. The
middles
>of all the steps all combined together as one.
>
>An advance dancer-finally learns to just walk to the music. Being able
to
>step on either side of the lady in a crossed or parallel leg position,
and to
>be able to entering the lady into ochos, or molenetes at will.
>
May be another way to classify could be with respect
to the fidelity to music:

- Beginner would be one who can step to the beat.

- Intermediate someone who would know to follow
  the music be on the beat as well as follow the
  mood(that is between the steps) of the music.

- Advanced could be someone whose dance interprets
  music and enhances it.

rajan





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