Comments on: Tangotation: writing tango steps http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/ and I mean it Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:45:03 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Peter http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-196572 Peter Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:50:46 +0000 http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/#comment-196572 @Cherie To start dancing tango for a guy is daunting, and any tool that helps to remember the base steps is welcome. Once you get further, the limitations of a notation system like this become unsurmountable. So yes, all your remarks are true, but they only come into play once a dancer is a lot further. @Cherie
To start dancing tango for a guy is daunting, and any tool that helps to remember the base steps is welcome. Once you get further, the limitations of a notation system like this become unsurmountable.

So yes, all your remarks are true, but they only come into play once a dancer is a lot further.

]]> By: Cherie http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-195815 Cherie Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:50:31 +0000 http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/#comment-195815 Nice work, and a lot of it, I'd say. But how do you notate expressing the music? Connecting with your partner's feelings? Sensuality? Improvisation? Perhaps some things must be felt, not notated. Nice work, and a lot of it, I’d say.

But how do you notate expressing the music?
Connecting with your partner’s feelings?
Sensuality?
Improvisation?

Perhaps some things must be felt, not notated.

]]> By: tangobliss » Boston Festival: Day 2 (early evening post) http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-105318 tangobliss » Boston Festival: Day 2 (early evening post) Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:35:44 +0000 http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/#comment-105318 [...] The level of what I don’t know and what I do know…comes shining through every time I take a frakkin’ class with a new series of teachers…and I feel like I can’t get my feet into the right places…it just feels all wrong. Every time I learn something new, some new pattern…no matter what (Dan Peters or) Daniel has told me, it takes me seemingly forever to get my feet in the right places to do the right things so that I can perform the pattern some teacher is showing me. What a waste. I hate that. I wish there were a better way for me to learn patterns so that it just wouldn’t be so frakking painful on me or my follower. I would love to see it once and just get it. But that NEVER happens. I was thinking on the way back to the dorm last night, if there were some kind of Tango Notation System that made it simple and easy to see patterns like you would a programming language, that would complicate things at first while you learned the Notation system, but once you got the hang of it…it would be easily translated into what you need to do. But such a notation system doesn’t easily fit into to Tango. There’s too many variables. Too many variables or atleast so I believe. [...] [...] The level of what I don’t know and what I do know…comes shining through every time I take a frakkin’ class with a new series of teachers…and I feel like I can’t get my feet into the right places…it just feels all wrong. Every time I learn something new, some new pattern…no matter what (Dan Peters or) Daniel has told me, it takes me seemingly forever to get my feet in the right places to do the right things so that I can perform the pattern some teacher is showing me. What a waste. I hate that. I wish there were a better way for me to learn patterns so that it just wouldn’t be so frakking painful on me or my follower. I would love to see it once and just get it. But that NEVER happens. I was thinking on the way back to the dorm last night, if there were some kind of Tango Notation System that made it simple and easy to see patterns like you would a programming language, that would complicate things at first while you learned the Notation system, but once you got the hang of it…it would be easily translated into what you need to do. But such a notation system doesn’t easily fit into to Tango. There’s too many variables. Too many variables or atleast so I believe. [...]

]]> By: Peter http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-31097 Peter Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:32:28 +0000 http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/#comment-31097 brave attempt at tango notation! I first wanted to reply here, but instead I dedicated a post to it on my blog: http://petere.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/tango-steps-notation/ brave attempt at tango notation! I first wanted to reply here, but instead I dedicated a post to it on my blog:
http://petere.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/tango-steps-notation/

]]> By: enzo http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-30286 enzo Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:17:04 +0000 http://blog.forret.com/2006/08/tangotation-writing-tango-steps/#comment-30286 Nice. But what do you use to indicate rotations? For exemple, in the central part of a "left turn" the man's feet don't move, just the body does. Other symbols could be introduced, like N-S-W-E to indicate "facing" :-) Nice.
But what do you use to indicate rotations? For exemple, in the central part of a “left turn” the man’s feet don’t move, just the body does.
Other symbols could be introduced, like N-S-W-E to indicate “facing” :-)

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