Re: [TANGO-L] Milonga

[astrid <astrid @RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP>]

> Wonder if anybody has used Corriditas, Cortes, Quebradas, and Sentadas to
> dance Milonga?
A quebrada is preceded
> by a "Corte" a sudden stop in the dance after a "Corridita" (small walking
> steps). The Corte and the Quebrada may follow a Sentada -- this is when
the
> man invites the woman to sit on his right or left leg depending on the
> position of the legs at the time of the dance.
>
> Would like to know if you have other definitions as to what constitutes a
> Corridita, Corte, Quebrada, Sentada.
>
I would like to know too. The explanations on quebradas that I found so far,
have always sounded rather nebulous to me, and most people seem not to be
able to answer questions about them at all.
Yes, I have done those quebradas, if that is what they are. You mean that
series of tiny ochos with feet closed almost all the time, don't you? Or did
I get this wrong?
But I am dumbfounded on what a sentada is doing inside a milonga. When is
there time in the music to sit on a man's leg ? I have been taught how to
end up on a man's thigh in a crude step during canyengue, taught by Gloria
and Eduardo, but in a different position from "sitting", but I don't think,
the dancers ever come to full stop during a milonga.