Some suggestions to aid your further study
Videos
- Scent of a Woman 1992
Al Pacino plays a cantankerous blind retired army officer whose big plans for a wild weekend in the Big Apple includes a tango with a beautiful woman.
Starring: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell
Web Sites
- Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education: This site is your best one to get your awareness started. Newsletters, books, tapes, research information for Practitioners and the Public.
- "Waking Up James" by Charlotte Palumbo: This article will give you a sense of what occurs with Autistic when a breakthrough is achieved. The Argentine Tango is especially suited to and of great benefit to Autistics — obtaining for them connection and social awareness — and giving them a dance skill they can use the rest of their lives. By the time a Job Counselor for Autistics sees them when they are around age 17 to early 20's, they are more willing to apply for a special job and hold that job down.
- The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique: Good site to increase your awareness. Comprehensive independent guide to all Alexander Technique resources worldwide—medical resources, find a teacher; self-study; videos, and books.
- The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation: Good site to increase your awareness . Foundation research re: the spinal cord and multiple sclerosis will help a student of Argentine Tango grasp how the naturalness of body movement, including the natural spiraling of the spinal cord within the dance, can be of value.
- Effects of Tango on Functional Mobility in Parkinson's Disease: A Preliminary Study by Madeleine E. Hackney, and others; Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. This article is simply a must for all of you. Please don't let your community and your young people remain ignorant of this information.
- University of Oregon Psychology Course Offerings: The U of O in Eugene, Oregon is known for its research and classes in Human Cognition and the Human Biomechanics of Movement.
Google for Yourself the Words:
- Kinesiology: the science of human movement focusing on how the body functions and moves
- Piezoelectric Effect: This effect within the human body is one reason why fundamentals of Argentine Tango are beneficial to Autistics and those suffering from Parkinson's Disease. The book Job's Body (listed below) is the clearest, most fantastic explanation of the Piezoelectric Effect that I've found to date.
Book:
- Job's Body, a Handbook for Bodywork
by Deane Juhan
Barrytown/Station Hill Press; Barrytown, NY, 2003
ISBN 1-58177-099-5
Don't let the title fool you. Highly readable and for the layman, this is the best all encompassing book to help anyone get a better grasp of "why" these techniques work with humans to such a wonderful degree. The book has 450 pages and an index. You can start anywhere in the book and reap huge benefits immediately daily. Start with p.245 Chapter 8—"the Sense of Effort" and read to the end of book. Take what you will from this book. Your take will be huge.
