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TOCA STUDENT · Lesson 04 · Kizomba technique

Stop collecting kizomba steps. A long vocabulary is not a conversation

A long vocabulary does not guarantee a real conversation. I have watched dancers with fifty figures fall apart the moment the music changed, because a figure without understanding disappears under pressure.

Dawou Tarraxo, pioneer of Tarraxo. Stop collecting kizomba steps. A long vocabulary is not a conversation

First understand your axis. Then your weight transfer. Then the information you exchange with your partner. A principle can create a thousand movements. A memorised figure creates one, and only when conditions are perfect.

Pick one figure you already dance and find the axis and the weight transfer inside it.

Principles travel across kizomba, tarraxo and urbankiz. Figures do not.

Share this with a dancer who collects combinations.

Stop memorizing steps, step by step

  1. STOP COLLECTING STEPS.
  2. A long vocabulary does not guarantee a real conversation.
  3. First understand your axis.
  4. Then your weight transfer.
  5. Then the information exchanged with your partner.
  6. A figure without understanding disappears under pressure.
  7. A principle can create a thousand movements.

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This lesson comes from the book

Page 75 of The student's book by Dawou Tarraxo, the TOCA Method page this lesson comes from
The student's book · page 75

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The method

T O C A

Two bodies. One connection.

TTouchThe connection with your partner. Feeling through contact, never through force.
OObservationListening to your partner’s body, energy and tempo.
CControlMastery of your own movement. Precision without tension.
AAwarenessFull presence: with yourself, your partner and the music.