Given that our teacher travels down on the bus from Dublin it was bound to happen that a traffic hold up would prevent her from arriving on time to give the first class.
I concentrated mainly on the walk, for three reasons: you should always concentrate on the walk, the class participants were fairly new, and the male female ratio was 2:6.
The skewed male female ratio also meant I couldn’t work on anything requiring a complex lead so I used something that came to me at a milonga that weekend. While dancing I noticed that after an americana people expect to return to face their partner or go on to do a giro. So I didn’t. I continued walking side by side … and listened to their brains going “he can’t be just be doing this, my god, he is just doing this”.
So my first step for a class was; walk, turn into the americana, continue walking side by side, resolve.
What do you mean by an americana?
His weight is on his left foot, hers is on her right. He pivots her to face the open side of the embrace, they both step forward he with his right, her with her left.
At least that’s what I was always told was an americana.
Oh ok. I didn’t know it had a name.
Oh ok. I didn’t know it had a name.
This comments thing is not working very well, it nearly always gives me an error.
Oh ok. I didn’t know it had a name. It makes sense now.
This comments thing is not working very well, it nearly always gives me an error.
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What kind of error? Please.