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Re: [TANGO-L] Question about Tango technique

Good posture, balance and axis control are key skills in ALL tango
styles, for both leader and follower.

I know, as a folk dance some dancers never studied technique so they
hunch or jut their heads forward.

I know, a few teachers do teach the "lean on your partner" or "hang on
your partner" style of tango, but leaning on or hanging is much more
common from beginners or intermediates who are first trying out close
embrace.

Volcadas and the leaning calesita are more advanced moves for people
with good abdominal strength, and they are momentary adjustments, not
permanent postures.


On Jan 12, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Emre Demiralp wrote:

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...



Tom Stermitz
http://www.tango.org