
Merengue Tutorials
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Combination
Analysis: Introduction
This
tutorial is about the ability to observe, understand and duplicate any
combination. The skills you'll develop here are especially applicable
to video instruction, but are just as relevant to learning from instructors
in the studio and fellow dancers in a club environment. These three
sources will likely constitute the largest input to your expanding dance
vocabulary.
However,
you will learn more than just how to imitate. You will learn how to
manipulate the new material you acquire, to improve it, and generate
even more material with it.
The
lesson structure takes a markedly different format from the tutorials
in Phases I & II. We begin with a Principles section entirely devoted
to the theory underpinning combination analysis. It is followed by a
single large case study where theory is put into practice. Finally,
we have the Extras section which explores how the case study can be
manipulated, and how the skills you've developed can be applied to improve
other non-vocabulary related aspects of your dancing.
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