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TOCA STUDENT · Lesson 26 · Kizomba technique

Your next chapter as a dancer starts with one honest choice

So here is the check I run on myself. Touch, does my contact inform or does it push? Observation, do I listen before I act? Control, can I do it slowly and stop at any moment? Awareness, am I present with myself, my partner and the music?

Dawou Tarraxo, pioneer of Tarraxo. Your next chapter as a dancer starts with one honest choice

One of the four is always the weak link. It is usually the one you would rather not look at.

Choose it. Give it thirty days. Make one practice promise you can actually measure.

Kizomba, tarraxo or urbankiz, the next level is a decision before it is a skill.

Your next chapter as a dancer, step by step

  1. YOU DO NOT NEED MORE RANDOM CONTENT. YOU NEED A DIRECTION.
  2. TOUCH. Does your contact inform, or does it push?
  3. OBSERVATION. Do you listen before you act?
  4. CONTROL. Can you do it slowly, and stop at any moment?
  5. AWARENESS. Are you present with yourself, your partner and the music?
  6. One of the four is always the weak link.
  7. Choose it. Give it thirty days.
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The student's book · page 10

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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.