Tango Influences

I just wanted to record who have been the biggest influencers on my Dance by year:

2005
Steve y Debbie
Eduardo B.

2006
Eduardo B.
Issie K.
Sophie M.

2007
Eduardo B.
Leroy
El Gaucho

2008
Eduardo B.
Leroy
Mike Lavocah
Damian y Nancy
Pablo V y Dana
Pablo R y Noelia
Joe y Lucila
Tara y Fernando

2009
Steve y Debbie
Jenny y Ricardo
Andreas Wichter
Anne-Sophie y Joshua
Pablo y Noelia
Joe y Lucila
Melina y Detlef
Komala y Stefan
Graciela y Osvaldo

As you can see 2009 has been a good year. A much more wider and encompassing dance experience. Much of what has been worked on has been the small things. The movements that happen all the time in every step. I am trying to relearn them with an eye for precision, greater body awareness and natural body mechanics. When asked what steps did you do in that 90 minute class? The answer is generally we took three or five steps.

I had five private lessons with different people this year. All had positives and negatives to come away with. An amazing thing was how common the pointers were. I am still working on the two biggest revelations. In 2010 I hope to be deeper in the onion of learning.

Working more in depth I am seeing a common end goal from all of them. An image I can hold up and say that is a good walk and stance. I see now, different views with spotlights on specific areas of the end idea. Each teacher may have a primary focus to the group but little is contradictory of another's teaching. It is great to be able to spot that something said by X relates to what Y was trying to describe. I see this as one of the biggest steps in the year. After all you cannot do something if you have no goal of what it is.

TJ