Take 4 - Deriving Freno
At this point, we expect that you see the pattern, which is that, in some meaningful way, the low core, the hips, really are some combination of source and powerful stabilizing influence for a lot of what we do.
- Artist Name:
- Narisco Saul
- Song Title:
- Ventanita de Arrebal
- Album Title:
- No Tango
- Artist Website:
- http://www.narcisosaul.com.ar/
From artist's website: Guitarist and singer, he interprets tangos, milongas, and Argentine folk music as well as his own compositions.
- 00:04
- So we say over and over that the core and front end, dancing from our core is the most important thing of all
- 00:10
- In social dancing, especially in tango, the connection is really important as well.
- 00:16
- We have a third thing, that we don't talk about that often, that for us is extremely important, it's just the "danceness" of it
- 00:22
- And the danceness I suppose partly comes from a relationship to the music and the timing
- 00:28
- In freno, it's about pivoting from your core, to us, and then it's about relating to each other through the music.
- 00:40
- One thing I tell a lot of students to do, once they get advanced, this is not a beginning idea
- 00:46
- Is that don't pivot, until ascertained to. If he leader will try to pivot the follower, and the follower shouldn't go, and they resist - don't pivot at all.
- 00:53
- And then you'll feel this on the spot in your abs
- 00:56
- It is exactly where it is
- 00:58
- And it's really low
- 00:59
- Yeah, it is
- 01:00
- And people are surprised how low the dancing really comes from
- 01:05
- So if we're here, and I extend my right foot, as I pull, my pull is... started by the pullback in my right hip, and then in some certain place in by abs, on to my left.
- 01:16
- And she'll resist
- 01:18
- And as I resist, It hits me very low down in the abs, and then the pivot happens.
- 01:23
- Kind of by magic. Sort of by magic
- 01:27
- And here is the key study, but it's true in general, that...
- 01:32
- It really is the case, that it's your low abs that do a lot
- 01:37
- And so I want you to think, anytime you want to feel where should this step come from, don't go - resist
- 01:43
- That's great advice
- 01:44
- And then, relax everything you can, resist as little as you' can, and when they impply increasing pressure, ask
- 01:50
- "What are the exact muscles I must use?" And alwost always the answer is - very low, rather than up here in your shoulders.
- 01:56
- That was really good
