ALL IN ONE STEP: “IN SEARCH OF LIGHTNESS WITHIN THE TANGO EMBRACE”. THE BIOMECHANICS OF TANGO STEP - Couverture souple

Gaggiotti, Giorgio; Fioretti, Prof Sandro

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798511613093

Editeur : Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

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This book tries to explore the elements regulating the tango step movements as a couple ("El tango es caminar") and is directed at tango dancers and lovers. Every couple’s tango step is unique in its biomechanical characteristics as a consequence of musical interpretation and performance requiring very subtle and refined body control, where everyone has their role. Transmitting the knowledge of the similarities and differences of the normal step had for the goal a simplification and improvement of the couple’s movement allowing for one’s increase in their interpretative capacity, in the search of lightness! Knowledge of the technical aspects regulating the mechanisms of the tango step does not reduce its emotional aspect. On the contrary, proper technical control allows for greater emotional expression. Many of the technical elements handed down by the "founding fathers" of tango have been the author's cardinal points. Further contribution has been provided by an experimental biomechanical study of the tango step performed at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy.
Layout
The book is organized into six sections and an appendix: Section 1 Contains the basic principles that regulate balance and movements of the human body. Section 2 Posture and the tango embrace, which are the essential elements of the social tango (tango de pista o de salon), are analyzed. Section 3 The kinematic elements that characterize the normal forward and backward step are analyzed and compared to those characterizing the tango. Section 4 The mechanisms of "walking together" as a couple are analyzed. Section 5 Details of the tango step are described. Section 6 Contains the basic concepts of movement learning and breathing. Appendix It contains the results of the comparison between the normal step and the tango step obtained by an experimental study of biomechanics (Gait analysis A simplified language has been used with examples, metaphors and even repetition of concepts to make it easier to read, preferring clarity to formality. The book sections are organized in chapters. At the beginning of each chapter, there is a visual scale (red dots from 1 to 5) that indicates its difficulty. Unfamiliar terms have been collected in a glossary at the book’s end. Furthermore, the book's large number of illustrations not only serve as clarification of technical details in tango but also to understand biomechanical concepts which aren't always intuitive.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798511613093
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Gaggiotti Lorenzo
• Nombre de pages: 214
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