Cool Ways to Travel - Adv - Prep For Cadena - Man's Gancho

(Nancy speaking): I have a theory about teaching which requires that I occupy the student's conscious mind with something collateral to what I plan to teach and then sneak the true teaching in to his backbrain. That's a very simplified explanation. Ask me and I'll be glad to tell you more.

This is basically what we are doing in these 2 videos. The important thing we want to teach is that very difficult J step for the follower and the lead that makes this happen. Along with the placement of both partners' feet. But what people think about is the coming gancho and how to make that work. This mind-on-the-gancho effect gets them to learn the beginning of the cadena just as a by product.

We have found this remarkably more effective and much less confusing than trying to teach the cadena in a more straightforward way. When we finally come to put the pieces of cadena together, students find that they already have the crucial elements to make it work taught into their body (while they were making the gancho and following drag work).

Artist Name:: Trio Garufa

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Artist Name:

Trio Garufa

Song Title:

La Bordona

Album Title:

El Rumor De Tus Tangos

Artist Website:

http:// http://www.triogarufa.com/

From website: Trio Garufa is an international ensemble dedicated to performing authentic Argentine music. They have performed across Argentina, Canada and the US. Trio Garufa performs traditional Argentine tango, modern tango styles such as Astor Piazzolla's music or electro tangos, original tango compositions, and Argentine folk music. Their music is exciting, virtuosic, and rooted in the dance. They are the only tango ensemble in the US to have performed extensively in the milongas (tango dance clubs) of Buenos Aires. The group includes Guillermo García, guitar (Argentina) Adrian Jost, bandoneon (Switzerland) and Sascha Jacobsen, string bass (California).

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Artist Name:

Trio Garufa

Song Title:

Malena

Album Title:

El Rumor De Tus Tangos

Artist Website:

http://www.triogarufa.com/

From website: Trio Garufa is an international ensemble dedicated to performing authentic Argentine music. They have performed across Argentina, Canada and the US. Trio Garufa performs traditional Argentine tango, modern tango styles such as Astor Piazzolla's music or electro tangos, original tango compositions, and Argentine folk music. Their music is exciting, virtuosic, and rooted in the dance. They are the only tango ensemble in the US to have performed extensively in the milongas (tango dance clubs) of Buenos Aires. The group includes Guillermo García, guitar (Argentina) Adrian Jost, bandoneon (Switzerland) and Sascha Jacobsen, string bass (California).

Series:: Cool Ways to Travel - Adv
Tags:: Vocabulary, Gancho, Advanced