The Definitions of Tango
Definition: Applied Disassociation
However, we want to release that torsion at a time and place of our choosing. That release is the a completion of sorts, the lower half of the body (hips, thighs, knees, ankles, and feet) catches up to the upper half.
The Leading Mantra
What is a "Leading" Mantra ? It’s a phrase that we want to use when we’re dancing to remind of us a long laundry list of things. The mantra is > ‘My mind, in her feet, on the beat, to the pauses, within the phrases’.
Definition: Opposition
Usage. In the case of Argentine Tango, the concept and activity of Opposition does not come anywhere close to it’s dictionary counterpart. And that’s because it’s derivative of the completed phrase, “Walking-In-Opposition”.
Definition: Floorcraft
‘Floorcraft’ is, but is not limited to: The active choice of, and execution of tango vocabulary (lead or follow) in time to the music (beat/pause/and phrasing), within the line and lane of dance, that does not impede the ronda, or the couples around the initiating couple (as a lead or follow), nor does it impact or endanger other couples. Instead, floorcraft as a practice works harmoniously within the embrace of the initiating couple, and then the couples around them, and co-exists peacefully within the ronda….
Definition: A ‘L/lead’
In Argentine Tango it is customary to use the word ‘Leader” to signify and identify the role of the dancer that is indicating direction, pace, timing, vocabulary choices, and musical interpretation to a degree.
Definition: Tango Rigidity
Rigidity. (pron: rij-id-it-ee) According to Webster’s Dictionary the word ‘Rigidity’ is an adjective that means to be ‘stiff’ or ‘unyielding’, ‘not pliant’, ‘inflexible’, ‘strict’, ‘firmly fixed’, and or ‘set’. It comes from the latin word ‘rigidus’ meaning to be “stiff” or in its conjugated form to “stiffen”.
Definition: Disassociation
Usage. Disassociation from a Tango Perspective isn’t that far from it’s dictionary cognate, because there is a break from the whole, as in the whole body. Typically when we talk about Tango Disassociation we are referring to the top half of the body (head, torso, arms, shoulders) rotating to the left or to the right, as one unit, around the spinal column of the dancer, independently of the lower half of the body (hips, thighs, knees, ankles, and feet).
Definition: Connection
Usage. In the case of Tango Connection we use this word in a very different way than as intended of its 5 possible definitions. We use it in 1 of 6 common ways (listed here) of the 8 possible meanings that it has been used over the years. 1.) It is meant as a way to talk about a way or method of communication between the dancers….