Re: [TANGO-L] Molinete/Giro

[Igor Polk <ipolk@VIRTUAR.COM>]

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