Enhanced Reality Tango

Ever wish that you could watch yourself dance?
See what your teacher sees when they correct you?
See what it looks like when you do it correctly?

Feel what it looks like?

That's the key, and a big shortcoming for training with video.

Yes, with video you can see after the fact what you look like. Teacher points out something when it's wrong, you watch the replay, Repeat when it's good. However, you never know that Exact instant what the movement Feels like, Proprioceptively.

For that, you have watch yourself in real-time. Feel within yourself what it's like to have upright posture, feel within yourself what its like to have proper leg extension, feel within yourself what it's like to have a smooth and balanced pivot, at the same time you're doing it.

Yes, there's a tool that's pretty good at these things-
it's called a mirror :)

A mirror is pretty good if you're walking or standing.
By yourself.
Frontally.

But falls apart once you start dancing. You do a pivot and can't see yourself anymore. Walk parallel to the mirror and turn your head but that body perception is different than when you look ahead. You can't see to the right in close embrace, etc, etc.



Hence, this tool. Total geekdom. A Head Mounted Display. Virtual Reality goggles. For tango.



Take a video camera or two, point them at yourself, hook them up to a wireless transmitter, then slip the suckers on and watch yourself dance, from any angle, real-time, no matter which way you're facing or what you're doing.

I know, weird.
But it works.

You can walk by yourself or with a partner, see from any angle and in any embrace what it looks like when you move, focus within yourself so you can remember what that movement actually Feels like, then do something about it, that second, and learn a new movement pattern.

With wireless pressure sensors, you can monitor if your embrace has a proper compression curve, or if your foot displacement is smooth, beyond what most people can feel. All while making sure you look good doing it.

How you feel to your partner, this tool can't help you with, and that's more important than all of the above.

You'll need a dancer whose opinion you respect to give you feedback on the emotion conveyed by your embrace, your care, the freeness of your movement, musicality, and expressiveness.



Upcoming

Work out technical details to outfit whole tango class with HMDs.

Equipment Suppliers

HMD & Transmitter: Virtual Realities (Not Recommended)