Facing - Intro
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- One of the things that makes tango feel like tango
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- is the quality of the facing.
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- This gives tango part of its style.
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- And there's this sense that if I'm here
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- and there's this, this wonderful person right over here,
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- and I'm standing like this, that in some sense I'm oblivious
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- to her and that doesn't look like tango.
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- On the other hand, if I stand like this,
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- then all of a sudden there's this sense
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- that I'm really acutely aware of the fact
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- that there's someone right there and
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- I can actually hit feel his energy towards me,
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- Right? So, so this,
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- this is facing
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- and facing doesn't only mean are
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- your faces looking at each other.
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- And I'd go further and say, there's this sense of
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- of not getting there.
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- That if I'm here
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- and I am doing this, I'm looking at you.
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- This isn't, doesn't have a tango feel,
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- but if I'm here, then this does, right?
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- Because it's not quite direct, it's just a little bit off.
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- It's like being around the halo of your partner's face.
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- Um, so then as we're dancing
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- in the top, you'll notice
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- that we stay in the general vicinity of each other.
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- We track each other,
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- and yet we're, and we're really, uh, acutely aware.
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- And the risk, the risk is
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- to be completely facing each other all the way.
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- That's one risk. So that if, if I stay here
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- and for example, she's doing an O show
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- or I'm doing an o show, I'll do the O show
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- and I do this, you'll notice that that distorts my body.
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- My neck is broken, I'm over twisted in my waist.
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- Um, so then there's, or
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- likewise if I'm facing the camera, if I do this
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- or my head stays all the way,
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- it really distorts my body in lots of bad ways.
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- But on the other hand, if it's this,
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- and notice that my head does move a little bit,
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- my head does move a little bit,
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- my head does move a little bit,
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- but you know that I'm still to you.
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- So then, uh, one question is state to your partner,
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- but you don't have to be direct.
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- And then the other thing is what do you do with your spine
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- and your neck so that no one piece works too much
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- And you need to pull long through your whole body
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- and then map the pivot
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- to the length in your spine.
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- And if we're in an ocho it's
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- that, that same mapping
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- and then adjusting that creates the facing.
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- So, uh, notice that if I were here
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- as I, as I spiral, everything moves
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- just a little bit, just a little bit,
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- just a little bit, just a little bit.
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- So that the spiral is one long thing through the spine,
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- right, rather than
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- only in the neck, for example, or only in the waist, for
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- Example. So now David's
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- a lot more flexible in his back than I am.
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- So when I do that, I can't try
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- to force it and make it too much.
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- I have to stay with integrity to my spine,
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- which doesn't bend as much as he does his does.
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- And just keep my awareness
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- and the pivot
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- of my spine consistent all the way up and down my back.
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- Thank you.
