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Grace and Elegance with Pausa and Adornments
Add elegance and grace to your dancing!
Argentine Tango offers dancers many possibilities with its powerful pausas and beautiful adornments.
But to be truly stylish you must do more than just randomly stop, or throw in some kicks and flicks to your dancing. To really shine, you'll need to understand where the pausa and adornments fit into the music and how to dance them in harmony with your partner.
Feel the musicality and energy of Argentine Tango, adding grace to your dancing in a way that brings you and your partner pleasure rather than stress.
Use the power of the pausa to respond to the music with elegant pausa and adornments.
• Gracefully begin and end pausa and adornments in both roles.
• The vital differences between stop, wait, pause, and freeze.
• Use your breathing throughout the dance to stay connected with your partner during pausa and adornments.
• Improvise your own free-form adornments, using different Dinámica such as staccato, legato and elasticity.
• Techniques to use them to dance with finesse with everyone from beginners to Maestros and Maestras.
In "Grace and Elegance with Pausa and Adornments" Dr Oliver Kent clearly explains the intricacies of the pausa and adornments in a style that's fun and approachable. He writes with humor and uses helpful illustrations to address what social dancers really want to know. Add grace and elegance to your Argentine Tango!
Argentine Tango offers dancers many possibilities with its powerful pausas and beautiful adornments.
But to be truly stylish you must do more than just randomly stop, or throw in some kicks and flicks to your dancing. To really shine, you'll need to understand where the pausa and adornments fit into the music and how to dance them in harmony with your partner.
Feel the musicality and energy of Argentine Tango, adding grace to your dancing in a way that brings you and your partner pleasure rather than stress.
Use the power of the pausa to respond to the music with elegant pausa and adornments.
• Gracefully begin and end pausa and adornments in both roles.
• The vital differences between stop, wait, pause, and freeze.
• Use your breathing throughout the dance to stay connected with your partner during pausa and adornments.
• Improvise your own free-form adornments, using different Dinámica such as staccato, legato and elasticity.
• Techniques to use them to dance with finesse with everyone from beginners to Maestros and Maestras.
In "Grace and Elegance with Pausa and Adornments" Dr Oliver Kent clearly explains the intricacies of the pausa and adornments in a style that's fun and approachable. He writes with humor and uses helpful illustrations to address what social dancers really want to know. Add grace and elegance to your Argentine Tango!
138 pages, Paperback
Published July 17, 2020
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July 18, 2020
‘Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.’ – Rachel Zoe
Oliver Kent PhD is an author and teacher who passionately believes that there's no good reason to make another's life harder and that it's usually less painful to learn from someone else's mistakes. As such he's currently in the process of sharing his (often hard-won) experience through writing books that help make life a little easier. He also dances. A lot. He has published many books on the Tango as well as books Healing your Relationship with God, Finding Hope: Searching for Happiness, Beginners Guide to Meditation and two books of Buddhist quotations with accompanying reflections. Some readers may react to the title of this book as a subject that doesn’t pertain to them – that they 1) don’t dance and 2) don’t know the first thing about dancing the Tango. The push away factor would be preventing general readers from Oliver’s magnetic humor and social interaction teachings in his immensely entertaining and informative books about Tango dancing. GRACE AND ELEGANCE WITH PAUSA AND ADORNMENTS: FILLING IN THE BLANKS OF ARGENTINE TANGO is his latest Book 10 of that series
Opening his book with a note about the series, Oliver offers that this volume is about Pausas and Adornments – ‘Pausa – a pause, either the dancer, in the music, or both, Adornments – adding small movements, such as taps, that don’t interfere with the larger movements being led and followed at the same time. Both leaders and followers can do this.’ Oliver states, ‘Musicians use conventions so that dancers get cues to help them interpret what will happen in the music. Fortunately, Argentine Tango has many similarities with western poetry. When you listen to the music and dance as if it were a poem, you can react elegantly in the moment, rather than being distracted with plans, or musical algebra,’ and then he advises us on how to find the punctuations and phrases in the music to augment the grace and elegance of the performed tango dancing.
With excellent figurative drawings by Oscar B Frise to support the ideas, Oliver discusses the various types of tango movements and then demonstrates the various steps and movements of the various styles that each music form initiates. His comparisons to poetry and the Tango are particularly entertaining. As always his commentary is clear, accessible – and philosophical! This is one fine guidance book – another solid reason to embrace the Tango!
Oliver Kent PhD is an author and teacher who passionately believes that there's no good reason to make another's life harder and that it's usually less painful to learn from someone else's mistakes. As such he's currently in the process of sharing his (often hard-won) experience through writing books that help make life a little easier. He also dances. A lot. He has published many books on the Tango as well as books Healing your Relationship with God, Finding Hope: Searching for Happiness, Beginners Guide to Meditation and two books of Buddhist quotations with accompanying reflections. Some readers may react to the title of this book as a subject that doesn’t pertain to them – that they 1) don’t dance and 2) don’t know the first thing about dancing the Tango. The push away factor would be preventing general readers from Oliver’s magnetic humor and social interaction teachings in his immensely entertaining and informative books about Tango dancing. GRACE AND ELEGANCE WITH PAUSA AND ADORNMENTS: FILLING IN THE BLANKS OF ARGENTINE TANGO is his latest Book 10 of that series
Opening his book with a note about the series, Oliver offers that this volume is about Pausas and Adornments – ‘Pausa – a pause, either the dancer, in the music, or both, Adornments – adding small movements, such as taps, that don’t interfere with the larger movements being led and followed at the same time. Both leaders and followers can do this.’ Oliver states, ‘Musicians use conventions so that dancers get cues to help them interpret what will happen in the music. Fortunately, Argentine Tango has many similarities with western poetry. When you listen to the music and dance as if it were a poem, you can react elegantly in the moment, rather than being distracted with plans, or musical algebra,’ and then he advises us on how to find the punctuations and phrases in the music to augment the grace and elegance of the performed tango dancing.
With excellent figurative drawings by Oscar B Frise to support the ideas, Oliver discusses the various types of tango movements and then demonstrates the various steps and movements of the various styles that each music form initiates. His comparisons to poetry and the Tango are particularly entertaining. As always his commentary is clear, accessible – and philosophical! This is one fine guidance book – another solid reason to embrace the Tango!
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