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| Peugeot 203 on RHS |
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| An advert from 1959 |
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| For a farmer, perhaps. |
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| Shooting Brake. |
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| 203 Decouvrable, 1951 |
Tango Practice:
This week we began the tango class with warm up exercises that I found difficult to do without wobbling all over the place. Basically, one stood on one leg and rotated the other leg through the air: rotating at the ankle, then the knee and then the hip.
This is a set of exercises that I can practise each day at home and thus (hopefully) build up a stronger physical base from which to do the dance itself.
I believe this to be the case because I find keeping my balance to be a real challenge when dancing. That's because one has one's legs close together and one performs each step very slowly.
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| The wrong and the right way to do the exercise. |
AND, crucially, one should keep one's knees slightly bent throughout the whole dance and thus throughout the whole exercise.
A development of this exercise is walking, without a partner, around the hall very slowly, knees brushing against each other, and also knees slightly bent and each step being executed with a kind of sliding action where the toe and not the heel touches the floor first. I'm flat-footed so practice is clearly necessary in this case too.
This walking exercise reminded me of that old test for drunkenness that one used to see in TV cop programmes - walking in a straight line. As I say, I was wobbling all over the place.
Again, I'll be practising this at home this week.
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Tango fact:
One always dances around the hall in an anti-clockwise direction.
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Last night's dinner:
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| Spaghetti bolognaise with far too much mince. |
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Currently listening to:
"A Man Called E" by Eels.
Eels being basically one person, Mark Oliver Everett.
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