Vals Essence - Not Stopping By Moving Through The Foot
We have a number of videos which are about incredibly subtle things. The intent is not that you spend hours suffering or repeating but rather that you spend a handful of minutes very mindfully practicing what we are saying. And thinking: "is this what they're saying". It's not like there is so much to "do" as there is to think about, to try, and then to revisit.
- Artist Name:
- Lucio Arce
- Song Title:
- Esperando Heredar
- Album Title:
- Tangos Inesperados
- Artist Website:
- https://lucioarce.bandcamp.com/
Lucio Arce has an authentic caberet feeling to his guitar playing and singing. There are overtones, sometimes, of jazz and playfulness.
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- One of the things that makes vals vals is that it doesn't really stop.
- 00:14
- That was kind of the man's part.
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- But, if we did it together,
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- What are we doing, by the way?
- 00:21
- Anything that doesn't stop.
- 00:31
- And so, one thing we wanted to talk about is the way you can roll through the foot.
- 00:34
- Right.
- 00:34
- So, if I do this, as I go boom-bum, ba, there's that definite stop.
- 00:39
- Or, from better angle,
- 00:41
- It's good dance, but it's not vals.
- 00:43
- Tic-tac, ta. Instead, we'll go: da, da...
- 00:50
- And, from the side view, if you watch the foot, I shift... and I'm still moving, onwards.
- 00:57
- I think, that's what I was wanting to show with my weird shoes is that you can see it move through the ankle...
- 01:03
- D: Your shoes are not weird.
N: OK, with my different shoes. - 01:06
- You can see it move through the ankle.
- 01:08
- So, I land, and I catch, and I lower, controlling it with my ankle.
- 01:14
- And then, also, we don't stop. We hover. We lift. We lift the body so that the bodies keep moving.
- 01:23
- Which is such a wonderful thing.
- 01:24
- So, even, or for example, a tango close, you usually think: side, change, back.
- 01:30
- So, if we just do that same left foot basic, why not,
- 01:33
- N: It's standing us in good stead.
D: Ah. - 01:37
- And then, here, we keep the energy going; and then, here, we keep the energy going, roll through the foot, and then go on.
- 01:45
- Right.
