We went to Tulsa for the monthly milonga last Friday. They reported that there were 32 people for the party. Way to go, Tulsa.
We were watching Bill Nye The Science Guy dancing on Dancing With The
Stars. That reminded me of the following thread in Facebook with my friend D.H.
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'Hiro' In dancing it is painfully clear whether he knows
what he is talking about.
September 10 at 6:09pm · Like · 1
DH Painful
lengthwise, or knowledge-wise?
September 10 at 6:16pm · Like
'Hiro' How you dance
IS the physical presentation of what you know about the dance. It doesn't
matter how much you think you know about the dance theoretically if you can
dance only poorly. In dance you show what you got. If the show is poor, I'll
discount whatever you say.
September 10 at 7:22pm · Like
DH That sounds
plausible to me, but it leaves me without a way to evaluate potential
information without having personal, physical access to the results. How did
you figure everything out?
September 11 at 7:18am · Like
'Hiro' Theories for
dancing are like scientific theories. Meaning the event comes first, then
people make theories about it. You watch good dancing first, then figure out
whether the theories hold out. If what the writing says does not explain or
isn't applicable to good dancing, the writing has less meaning. You got to
watch good dancing, then read about it. Not the other way around.
September 11 at 8:51am · Like
'Hiro' This particular writing is pretty good,
though. [Note: we started this thread from an article about dancing]
September 11 at 9:00am · Like
DH Ah - I think I
see. I don't have to watch the author's dancing. I do have to watch good
dancing and see if the author's writing can explain it. Right?
September 11 at 4:09pm · Like
'Hiro' Right. Dancing
is something to be done primarily. It helps if you can see the author dance,
though. If I can see the author's dancing, and if the author's dancing is
pretty good, I tend to pay more respect to his writing, assuming that he has a
higher level of understanding of the dance that makes it possible for him to dance
well. But these two abilities, dancing and writing, are different domains of
skills after all. There are cases theoretical understanding and execution are
not in the same level. And as I wrote in previous comment, I base my judgement
on his execution (=dancing) rather than his talk/writing.
September 11 at 4:38pm · Like
DH Ah, I think I see
the grammar of your original comment now. So by "in dancing, it is
painfully clear..." you mean in actually watching him dance. This is one
of the reasons you encouraged me to go to Dallas - so I could see a lot of
dancing and have a reference point for understanding what is going on.
September 11 at 4:43pm · Like
'Hiro' Yup.
