TRIPPING AND LIMPING AS FUNDAMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC ACCIDENTS
CUBAN CASINO SQUARE METHOD (MCC)
THEORY OF CHOREOGRAPHIC MOTION
TRIPPING AND LIMPING AS FUNDAMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC ACCIDENTS
1. General Statement
In the execution of steps within Casino dance, there are two fundamental choreographic accidents that directly affect the quality, efficiency, and coherence of movement:
tripping and limping.
Both constitute deviations from natural human walking, which is adopted in the Cuban Casino Square Method as the structural basis of choreographic motion.
2. Critical Note on the Myth of “Dancing on the Toes”
There is a widespread myth according to which professional dancers dance on their toes. This idea is incorrect when transferred to the context of social dance.
A distinction must be made between the stage dancer, who performs choreographed movement under aesthetic codes, and the social dancer, who operates within an interactive system governed by functionality, efficiency, and reproducibility.
The stage dancer works within a previously structured choreography, where leading is not tested in real time and where exaggerated aesthetic projection predominates.
In contrast, social dance operates under real conditions of interaction, without prior choreography, requiring mechanical efficiency, anatomical naturalness, and immediate functional viability.
Therefore:
the introduction of stage-dance codes into social dance generates technical distortions.
Among these distortions are precisely tripping and limping.
3. Definition of Tripping
Tripping is defined as the alteration of the natural order of foot support during forward walking.
In natural human locomotion, movement follows a vertical wave organized in the following order:
knee → heel → toe
Therefore:
placing the toe before the heel in a forward step constitutes tripping.
4. Definition of Limping
Limping is defined as the loss of symmetry in the quantity and quality of movement between both legs.
Therefore:
limping is the non-symmetrical execution of movement between both legs.
5. Application to the Son Step
5.1. Forward Movement
knee → heel → toe
5.2. Backward Movement
knee → toe → heel
In the case of the Son Step:
contact is made with the toe, but the heel does not come down to full support.
6. Fundamental Principle
The choreographic motion of Well-Formed Casino Dance is grounded in the structural reproduction of natural human walking.
7. Conclusion
Tripping and limping are two of the most frequent errors in dance execution.
Their correction is a necessary condition for a structurally valid, functionally efficient, and reproducible dance.
Yoel Marrero
Author of the Cuban Casino Square Method (MCC)
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