Roxana and Sebastian have
always been among my top favorite performers, but it was for a time ago
when I decided to develop my enrosques - at last - I started to pay even
more serious attention to them. I am dancing as a leader and
Sebastian's skill and art of turning, his skill to coil his spine and
body was mindblowing to me. I had found my high rising goal and it
inspired me to work hard to get better, growing in that direction!
Youtube
I
started to save youtube clips for future homework and saved them in my
online library to manage the growing collection. From these videos you
get the form, the shape of a figure and if you pay attention and are
working carefully you can perform them reasonably well after some time. I
had earlier noticed that when I work on 20-30 figures of a specific
teacher I could hit some basic principles in their style and many times
that is enough, that is what I want to achieve. Though in this case I knew
that there were deeper-lying details which I could not even imagine and
therefore not develop on my own!
Workshop
When Roxana and
Sebastian visited the town giving workshops I was there for sure! They
were very professional and had an unusual well build structure on the
course material. They were also circulating around well but with that
number of students what could they do? I was surprised that they managed
to give us personal feedback so I could lead one of the figures with
Roxana and my follower was lead by her too! But in these situations the
whole room is filled with excitement so really deep learning is hardly
possible.
Tangomeet
My third try was an online course! During
the closedown autumn I bought two sections of Sebastian and Roxana
classes on Tangomeet and that has been the best thing I have done for my
long-term learning. The content of the classes is put together with
great care and understanding of what a student needs to know in order to
reach the goal. Through the years I have become extremely sensitive to
power unbalance between the teachers but here we have just a clear focus
on the students and cooperation to help them forward. Both are
seamlessly adding information and advice helping me to proceed!
Systematic video watching is the core of my learning method and
therefore I really need content that I can watch over and over again and
after that repeat it once more!
Local teachers
To learn from
youtube, DVD, an education channel or from visiting teachers is kind of
unsynchronized learning and it is not enough for me. I need also local
regular courses as well as privates to reach the dance I am looking for.
I need to combine the INFORMATION on how to do things and the FEEDBACK
how am I doing, how does it feel for a follower. When we are back to
couple dancing and private lessons I will go to my local teachers for
feedback about how comfortable my lead is and how to improve my
performance so it will be comfortable for tandas in the future!
Some comments on the Tangomeet courses I work on
I
have been working on enrosques earlier with other teachers but his
section gave me the exact timing of the steps as well as other details.
Grateful for that! The biggest surprise was though that this section gave
me so much more to learn - boleos sacadas and other goodies!
https://tangomeet.com/
The
second group of courses included the baridas on a *second level*! At
the first level I could stop the follower, do a barida and
continue the dance. This I knew already! Here I learn to do the
barida as a skillful cooperation/shared decoration during the flow of
the dance. No stops anywhere and that is much more complicated than I
thought!
https://tangomeet.com/
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