Breathing in tango

I went to tango lesson as usual Saturday. My recent concerns are these 4 items:

Breathing, Steps, Posture and Lead for women (an abbreviation "BSPL")
Today, I’d like to pick up “breathing” especially. My teacher advised me not to use any specific movements to continue dancing except breathing i.e. in dancing, we have to concentrate on partner’s breathing all the time. When I practiced a new step, I only focused on my steps and I forgot my breathing… Then, my partner would have trouble in thinking about her next steps. Oh, my God. It was NOT dancing!!

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In reviewing my piano, my (piano) teacher actually pointed me out about “breathing.” When I play the piano, I often play pieces by myself, and I always concentrate on my fingers’ movements. In considering pieces in a duet or chamber music, they use breathing effectively. Some solo piano pieces are also created by symphony, and at least, most pieces have some harmonies like traditional pieces by J.S. Bach.

Certainly, it might be difficult to play plural harmonies by oneself, but piano solo pieces should be related to breathing, I found today.

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Anyway, I’ll pay attention to breathing from now on every day.

Get piano score!

Indeed, when I bought 3 CDs the other day, I intended to buy piano score as well. But, I could not find then, and I ordered Amazon.co.jp, and the score reached me.

Roughly speaking, it doesn't contain such a rich notes, and it won't require me to practice a lot.

On the other hand, according to my friend, who know more about tango than me, "Piazzola is not made for dance." I'll practice it for my self.

Tango music (^o^)/

I wrote a post about Tango, where I explained why I was interested in this dance. My interest expands into other area - tango music -. Before going to Tango-party, I held only 3 tango-music CDs, and the images of these music was a little bit dark. Listening to these music precisely, almost all tango-music are composed by "minor," which is a musical word of harmony like "A-minor." This "dark" image comes from its "minor"-harmony, I understood.

In considering dance with music, I found this this "minor" harmony made this dance serious. Indeed, I didn't see any people who were laughing with dancing the other day. As a matter of fact, some couples are smiling each other in dancing.

Researching in detail with search engines, I found 2 kinds of tangos, "Arzentine tango" and "Continental tango." The former "Arzentine tango" is the original dance, and the latter "Continental" seems to have been created in Europe based on "Arzentine." I prefer "Arzentine tango," because of its charactristic rhythm. "Continental tango" doesn't have such an interesting rhythm at all, in my opinion. I'll write my feelings for these music in future.

Anyway, I also would like to have a fun in tango-music from now on!!

Danser le tango!!

Je suis allé à soirée dansante avec mes amies. On a organisé dans un studio prés de Hamamatsu-cho, ''Dash-G.'' (en japonais) C'est ma première experiénce de danser dans ma vie, et j'étais un peu nervous avant commancer à danser. Par chance, j'ai vu un couple, qui a exercé Tango-dance pour pleusieur années, et puis ils étaient habire à danser beaucoup.Ils ont conseillé la façon de danse, et ils m'ont remonté, quand j'ai tort sur notre pas. Mais, je pouvais danser avec la music, et ai goûté ma danse ce jour-là.
Je voudrais aller à practicer mes pas sur tango-dance. J l'aime beaucoup!!

Tango!!

Last Sunday, I went to Tango party with my friends. It was held in a studio near Hamamatsu-cho, named "Dash-G."(Japanese link) It was my first experience to dance in my life, and I was a little bit nervous, before starting to dance.
Fortunately, I met a couple, who had trained Tango-dance for some years. They were very smart in dancing!!They advised us how to dance, and also encouraged us in making mistakes on our steps... My friend brought them there, and I'd appreciate her to meet them so much.

I could dance in hearing tango-music accordingly, and had a very good time to dance! I'd like to go to lessons to practice some steps in tango-dance in near future. I love it!