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Re: Head flick in the International Tango
Posted by socialdancer
8/8/2014  10:11:00 AM
Nothing to do with latin fan position.
The fan action is described by Geoffrey Hearn in "A Technique Of Advanced Standard Ballroom Figures". Also sometimes referred to as "In and Out" or "Extended Promenade" it does travel so the feet are involved. From that, a variant without use of the feet could reasonably be called a body fan.

I don't think the action warrants a name in its own right but Shrug or Twitch would work for me. Whatever the couple can remember and associate with the action.

The most memorable term I have heard used, based on the impression of taking a quick glance over the shoulder, was "What was that Vicar?"
Re: Head flick in the International Tango
Posted by O.K.
8/8/2014  6:38:00 PM
Socialdancer. I don't think that to use the word Shrug for any dance would be wise. Shrug would mean lifting the shoulders and lowering. This we don't do. And on a lady would look awful. In dancing we try to keep our shoulders down. As I said before the lifting of the shoulders should not happen in any dance style. Bad choice of a word there. In the hands of a beginner not to be recommended.
Re: Head flick in the International Tango
Posted by nloftofan1
8/11/2014  8:28:00 AM
"Never heard that name used in a Tango." In American style Tango, a "fan" is an outside swivel (just one more example of using the same word to mean something different; another example--a spot turn means something very different in American style Latin dances than it means in International style). I think that's what this particular instructor was thinking of when he called that movement a "body fan."
Re: Head flick in the International Tango
Posted by O.Z
8/7/2014  11:38:00 PM
If the International Tango at the completion of the Progressive Link The outside of the Ladies right knee is touching the inside of the Mans left . And the inside of the Ladies left knee should be touching the outside of the mans right knee. Its not likely that the position of the of the legs and feet will alter. Just turn the heads for the man right then left. Lady the opposite. Now we step each one floorboard wide, or enough so that the lady can step slightly behind the man without distorting the shape into the Closed Promenade
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