Dance free
The lessons from the most recent classes taken can be condensed into three simple ideas:
- Dance with freedom and embrace in a way (coming from leader’s perspective) that allows the lady to move freely.
- As a leader, “accompany” the lady in every movement that you lead.
- Finally, when moving, always “arrive” completely!
Deja Vu
During my last week’s stay in Buenos Aires, have been concentrating on private classes and fine-tuning aspects of my dancing. However, when 3 different teachers have commented on the same thing within a 24 hour period, I suppose that means it’s something important and worth paying more attention to… 🙂
ps. I am referring to the “correct” way of doing a rebound or ribote.
Salon Canning
On Tuesday (7 April) night, we made plans to go to Salon Canning after a late afternoon class at EAT with the Dispari’s. This night was special for a couple of reasons: Color Tango was playing and Julio and Corina will be teaching a class as well as performing later. Since I have always enjoyed their dancing and their recent seminar, what more could I ask for?
Salon Canning, which I have heard so much about, was a nice and spacious venue. It has a high ceiling and a square dance made of chequered timber. There are large portraits – many depicting Claudia y Esteban – hanging on the walls, and large professional-looking speakers hanging above the dance floor. In short, I liked the venue and was looking forward to a nice of enjoyable dancing.
Sunderland
My first memory of Sunderland was a scene from the documentary “Tango: our dance” I saw close to 10 years ago. I remember thinking to myself how strange it was that people were dancing in a basketball court!? And the amount of space they had! Why then, all this talk of having to dance in crowded milongas? Of course, that was way before I got a better understanding of the dance itself and also the fact that there were many different milongas – the ones in the downtown have smaller dance floors, for example.
Well, we made it to Sunderland last night. My first two thoughts were: 1) it looked exactly the same as what I had seen in old video clips as (obviously…) and 2) it was smaller than I’d imagined. In fact, it seems to be generally true that photos and videos tend to make such venues seem larger than they are!?
By the way, the beef lomo that they serve is fantastic. Plain but surprisingly tasty. It may look horrendously large at first but definitely possible for one person to finish!