Dear Vanessa, I wish you all the luck with your work which helps me a lot in my exercises and I am sorry not to have them earlier on my tango life. So clear and so good even for very advanced dancers. Your body explications are awesome and if followed strictly, everyone can practice alone towards a mirror. I watched you with your partner too, dancing in @333 (where I was in may 2016) and I like very much your dancing too. I also admire your balance. Thanks a lot for sharing with unknown people you knowledge and skills.
You provide a wonderful resource with these practice videos. Thank you! 'Soltada' in the title threw me off. Solo practice is rather like full time release an embrace. :) Regardless, my reason to comment, in addition to thanking you, wants to ask you about the terminology for the direction of pivot. I've seen it termed left-right (ambiguous), front-back (my preference), clockwise-anticlockwise (unwieldy). I don't recall seeing your choice before, toward free-standing leg, which seems interesting but akin to left-right and also ambiguous. But perhaps I'm not using the same frame of reference that you do. I am thinking of the compass that you mention in the beginning. Does my free leg turn in the direction of the FRONT of my body or the BACK of my body. I keep a lookout for terminology that helps me speak to students in a way that is (in this estimated order of importance) unambiguous, requires minimal decoding to understand, and is concise--unlike this comment. :)
Hello David, thanks for this comment I also define pivot direction like you: to the standing leg (regardless of R/L)= front pivot to the free leg= back pivot in this video R & L are just indications of where the weight is, so viewers can practice at the same time. Solo practices are good to improve some skills like orientation, balance, coordination, speed. But they are definitely not enough to actually dance tango... A huge part of my classes is actually about communication, unfortunatly RUclips and the video format are not the best platforms to share that. I am trying to find a solution for that too
"... actually about communication, ..." Yes! I will eagerly follow your developments. I should like to 'communicate' with you :-) on this. I have an idea. You can reach me at david@tangotribe.com. Now regarding left/right standing/free, I hope I am not belaboring the point, and it in no way detracts from the value of your video. When I first saw your use of "pivot toward the standing/free" leg, which I've not seen elsewhere, I thought, "Cool!" Then when I look at it again it still feels ambiguous. If I say "pivot toward your standing leg," does that mean toward it to the front or to the back? What am I missing? My impression is that in saying 'toward' standing/free leg we are implying "toward the front of the body". But the difficulty I see in that, is that the body usage in a "toward the free leg" is truly "backwards, toward the standing leg." Am I picking a nit, or am I making a real, useful distinction? By the way, regarding front/back, I really liked your other video (sorry I don't have the link for it right now) where you define front versus back crosses as crossing the body's midline, either to the front or to the back of the body. Quite clear.
😊 thanks for this nice comment, I have few videos on RUclips with my partner, you should find them if you write " Eşref Tekinalp & Vanessa Gauch " in the search bar
The exercises seems ok to me. But I do not understand the accompanying music. If it is tango why they do not use tango music? Like this is not tango. Is just some sort of light gymnastic.
uruverita l actually did not focus on music, For Corona our dancing class is closed and with the lady l did my foot practicing, Very effective, thank you,
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Hi Vanessa...thank you for these wonderful videos. I admire you for your great professionalism. As teacher of technique you are super.
😊 thank you dear Agnese
Dear Vanessa, I wish you all the luck with your work which helps me a lot in my exercises and I am sorry not to have them earlier on my tango life. So clear and so good even for very advanced dancers. Your body explications are awesome and if followed strictly, everyone can practice alone towards a mirror. I watched you with your partner too, dancing in @333 (where I was in may 2016) and I like very much your dancing too. I also admire your balance. Thanks a lot for sharing with unknown people you knowledge and skills.
Your teaching is very nice and elegant! Thank you.
Love that last exercise. Thank you
wow great balance!
wonderful video
You provide a wonderful resource with these practice videos. Thank you! 'Soltada' in the title threw me off. Solo practice is rather like full time release an embrace. :) Regardless, my reason to comment, in addition to thanking you, wants to ask you about the terminology for the direction of pivot. I've seen it termed left-right (ambiguous), front-back (my preference), clockwise-anticlockwise (unwieldy). I don't recall seeing your choice before, toward free-standing leg, which seems interesting but akin to left-right and also ambiguous. But perhaps I'm not using the same frame of reference that you do. I am thinking of the compass that you mention in the beginning. Does my free leg turn in the direction of the FRONT of my body or the BACK of my body. I keep a lookout for terminology that helps me speak to students in a way that is (in this estimated order of importance) unambiguous, requires minimal decoding to understand, and is concise--unlike this comment. :)
Hello David,
thanks for this comment
I also define pivot direction like you:
to the standing leg (regardless of R/L)= front pivot
to the free leg= back pivot
in this video R & L are just indications of where the weight is, so viewers can practice at the same time.
Solo practices are good to improve some skills like orientation, balance, coordination, speed. But they are definitely not enough to actually dance tango...
A huge part of my classes is actually about communication, unfortunatly RUclips and the video format are not the best platforms to share that. I am trying to find a solution for that too
"... actually about communication, ..." Yes! I will eagerly follow your developments. I should like to 'communicate' with you :-) on this. I have an idea. You can reach me at david@tangotribe.com.
Now regarding left/right standing/free, I hope I am not belaboring the point, and it in no way detracts from the value of your video. When I first saw your use of "pivot toward the standing/free" leg, which I've not seen elsewhere, I thought, "Cool!" Then when I look at it again it still feels ambiguous. If I say "pivot toward your standing leg," does that mean toward it to the front or to the back? What am I missing? My impression is that in saying 'toward' standing/free leg we are implying "toward the front of the body". But the difficulty I see in that, is that the body usage in a "toward the free leg" is truly "backwards, toward the standing leg." Am I picking a nit, or am I making a real, useful distinction?
By the way, regarding front/back, I really liked your other video (sorry I don't have the link for it right now) where you define front versus back crosses as crossing the body's midline, either to the front or to the back of the body. Quite clear.
I'm always amazed by your balance. I would love to see a video of you in full action dancing with someone. I'm sure it would be mesmerizing.
😊 thanks for this nice comment,
I have few videos on RUclips with my partner, you should find them if you write " Eşref Tekinalp & Vanessa Gauch " in the search bar
oh my goodness. thank you for that! You dance so gracefully! I'm a total beginner and can't wait for the day I can dance like this.
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yo no hablo ingles y no entiendo mucho, pero veo gracias.
The exercises seems ok to me. But I do not understand the accompanying music. If it is tango why they do not use tango music? Like this is not tango. Is just some sort of light gymnastic.
uruverita l actually did not focus on music,
For Corona our dancing class is closed and with the lady l did my foot practicing,
Very effective, thank you,