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FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENT II PROVISIONAL FOUNDATIONAL GLOSSARY OF THE THEORY OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS OF ENTROPIC RESISTANCE (TESERE)

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 FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENT II PROVISIONAL FOUNDATIONAL GLOSSARY OF THE THEORY OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS OF ENTROPIC RESISTANCE (TESERE) By Yoel Marrero PREAMBLE TESERE begins from the hypothesis that multiple phenomena of reality share common structural principles related to organization, identity, persistence, regeneration, and resistance against entropic degradation. The present glossary provisionally establishes the fundamental definitions used within the conceptual system of TESERE. BLOCK I — FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY STRUCTURE Structure is the fundamental set of organizational relations that defines the ontological identity of a system and establishes the basic possibilities of its functioning, persistence, and evolution. ORGANIZATION Organization is the specific functional disposition through which a structure operates, coordinates its components, and maintains dynamic coherence within a system. CONFIGURATION Configuration is the concrete and specific arrangement of the organizational com...

МЕТОД И МЕТАФОРА. Диалектика между структурой и неформальностью в кубинском Касино

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  МЕТОД И МЕТАФОРА Диалектика между структурой и неформальностью в кубинском Касино Введение: Онтология движения Танец в своём народном происхождении часто воспринимается как чисто эмоциональное и биологическое явление, своего рода «наследие крови», не нуждающееся в академическом подходе. Однако появление Метода Квадрата Касино (MCC), разработанного Йоэлем Марреро, знаменует собой онтологический перелом: переход от танца как привычки к танцу как технической дисциплине. Данное эссе ставит своей целью проанализировать легитимность «хорошо сформированного танца» в противопоставлении нарративу «сабора», а также этический кризис, который представляет собой методологическое пиратство в цифровой среде. I. Грамматика против идиолекта: «Хорошо сформированный» танец Различие между эмпирическим танцем и хорошо сформированным танцем — это не иерархия удовольствия, а различие в функциональной точности. Используя лингвистическую аналогию, уличный танцор действует в рамках идиолекта: набора привы...

方法とメタファー キューバン・カシーノにおける構造と非形式性の弁証法

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  方法とメタファー キューバン・カシーノにおける構造と非形式性の弁証法 序論:運動の存在論 ダンスは、その大衆的起源において、しばしば純粋に感情的かつ生物学的な現象として捉えられている。すなわち、学問を必要としない「血の継承」のようなものとして理解されがちである。 しかし、ヨエル・マレーロによる「カシーノ・スクエア・メソッド(MCC)」の登場は、存在論的な転換点を示している。それは、ダンスを単なる慣習から技術的 дисциплинаへと移行させたのである。 本稿では、「整形式ダンス(Well-Formed Dance)」の正当性を、「サボール(味・ノリ)」という語りとの対比の中で分析するとともに、デジタル環境における方法論的海賊行為がもたらす倫理的危機について考察する。 I. 文法と個人方言: 「整形式ダンス」 経験的ダンスと整形式ダンスの違いは、快楽の優劣ではなく、機能的精度の差である。 言語学的な比喩を用いれば、ストリートダンサーは個人方言(idiolect)のもとで踊っている。すなわち、コミュニケーション能力は持ちながらも、普遍化可能な統語法を欠いた習慣や癖の集合である。 MCCは規範的文法を提案する。「スクエア(Cuadro)」を幾何学的座標系として定義することで、マレーロはカシーノを抽象的神秘主義から解放し、ベクトル、回転軸、質量移動といった物理法則へと引き戻した。 整形式ダンスとは、その構造が識別可能で再現可能なダンスであり、芸術を厳密科学のような精度で教育可能にするものである。 ここで誤りとは「サボール」ではない。それは図形の論理を破壊する機械的機能不全である。 II. 「サボール」の誤謬と科学への抵抗 カシーノの専門化を阻む最大の障害の一つは、「サボール」という語りであり、それはしばしば知的防衛機制として用いられる。 批評の言説において、「サボール」は技術的不正確さを正当化するための空虚なメタファーとして機能している。 この抵抗は、科学医学と民間療法との歴史的緊張関係に似ている。方法論は「冷たい」「硬直している」と見なされるが、それは経験主義的アプローチでは支えきれない知的責任を要求するからである。 マレーロはカシーノを「作者性を持つシステム」へと昇華させることで、娯楽市場に存在する凡庸さの協定を打ち破った。そしてダンサーに対して、単なる感...

THE METHOD AND THE METAPHOR

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  THE METHOD AND THE METAPHOR Dialectics Between Structure and Informality in Cuban Casino Introduction: The Ontology of Movement Dance, in its popular genesis, is often perceived as a purely emotional and biological phenomenon, a kind of “blood inheritance” that dispenses with academia. However, the emergence of Yoel Marrero’s Method of the Casino Square (MCC) marks an ontological turning point: the transition from dance as custom to dance as technical discipline. This essay proposes to analyze the legitimacy of the “well-formed dance” in contrast to the narrative of “flavor,” as well as the ethical crisis implied by methodological piracy in the digital environment. I. Grammar versus Idiolect: The “Well-Formed” Dance The distinction between empirical dance and well-formed dance is not a hierarchy of pleasure, but one of functional precision. Using a linguistic analogy, the street dancer operates through an idiolect: a set of habits and stylistic expressions that, although communic...

INVITATION TO ASK TECHNICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT MCC

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 INVITATION TO ASK TECHNICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT MCC I would especially like to invite everyone currently studying: Structural Routines, Derived Routines, private courses, open free courses, or any MCC-related program, to ask me these kinds of technical, methodological, structural, or biomechanical questions about the Método del Cuadro del Casino. I am using these real questions and their answers to develop an intelligent response system oriented toward MCC 6.0. The more questions I receive: the more answers I can generate, the more real cases I can analyze, and the easier it becomes to build an intelligent and structured internal logic for the future development of MCC. Very often, behind a seemingly simple question, there are actually: motion problems, leading/conduction problems, navigation problems, counting errors, biomechanical interpretation issues, or differences between empirical Casino and Well-Formed Casino. Therefore, this process does not only help answer individual doubts...

CUBAN SOCIAL DANCES: ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATION, TAXONOMIC CRITIQUE AND TERMINOLOGICAL FORMULATION IN MCC

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  CUBAN SOCIAL DANCES: ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATION, TAXONOMIC CRITIQUE AND TERMINOLOGICAL FORMULATION IN MCC Abstract This article establishes a formal critique of the traditional nomenclature used in the classification of Cuban dances, highlighting its epistemological limitations and technical consequences. Based on this critique, the term Cuban Social Dances is proposed as a precise functional category, and an ontological typology is introduced based on origin and degree of formalization: Empirical Cuban Social Dances and Well-Formed Cuban Social Dances , within the framework of the Cuban Casino Square Method (MCC). 1. Problem of Traditional Nomenclature The dominant institutional classification in Cuba has historically organized dance manifestations into three main categories: Folk dances (mainly Afro-Cuban) Cuban popular dances Peasant dances Within this structure, an additional subdivision has been introduced: Ballroom dances Popular dances However, this system presents structura...

BAILES SOCIALES CUBANOS: FUNDAMENTO ONTOLÓGICO, CRÍTICA TAXONÓMICA Y FORMULACIÓN TERMINOLÓGICA EN EL MCC

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  BAILES SOCIALES CUBANOS: FUNDAMENTO ONTOLÓGICO, CRÍTICA TAXONÓMICA Y FORMULACIÓN TERMINOLÓGICA EN EL MCC Resumen El presente artículo establece una crítica formal a la nomenclatura tradicional empleada en la clasificación de las danzas y bailes cubanos, señalando sus limitaciones epistemológicas y sus consecuencias técnicas. A partir de esta crítica, se propone el término Bailes Sociales Cubanos como categoría funcional precisa, y se introduce una tipología ontológica basada en el origen y el grado de formalización: Bailes Sociales Cubanos Empíricos y Bailes Sociales Cubanos Bien Formados , dentro del marco del Método del Cuadro del Casino (MCC). 1. Problema de la nomenclatura tradicional La clasificación institucional dominante en Cuba ha organizado históricamente las manifestaciones danzarias en tres grandes categorías: Danzas folclóricas (principalmente afrocubanas) Bailes populares cubanos Danzas y bailes campesinos Dentro de esta estructura, se ha introducido además una su...

TRIPPING AND LIMPING AS FUNDAMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC ACCIDENTS

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  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 structur...

What Are the Theoretical Areas That Make Up the MCC?

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  🇬🇧 What Are the Theoretical Areas That Make Up the MCC? If the Method of the Casino Square (MCC) represents a shift from empirical transmission to structured understanding, then a key question naturally arises: What exactly is the theoretical structure that sustains it? A structured theoretical system The MCC is not an isolated set of ideas, nor a collection of independent concepts. It is a coherent and organized theoretical system , designed to fully characterize the technical, structural, and functional behavior of Cuban social dances. Originally, the MCC was formulated as a body of 21 core theories . However, as its development progressed, its internal structure expanded and refined, allowing us to identify a broader architecture composed of: 21 macro-theories developed into 36 specific theories. Why expand from 21 to 36? The original 21 theories already provided a solid analytical framework. But with deeper development, it became clear that some of those theories contained ...

What is the Method of the Casino Square Method (MCC)?

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  🇬🇧 What is the Method of the Casino Square Method (MCC)? If the problem of Casino dance has been, for decades, its empirical transmission and the absence of a clear language to understand it, then the inevitable question is this: what can replace that deficiency? The answer is the Method of the Casino Grid (MCC) . The MCC does not arise from a trend, but from a necessity The MCC did not emerge as a simple teaching proposal, nor as just another stylistic variation within the dance market. It arose from a concrete necessity: the need to structurally understand Casino dance . For a long time, Casino was transmitted as repertoire, as habit, as accumulated imitation. But not as an intelligible system. What was missing was not enthusiasm or practice. What was missing was a tool capable of: observing the dance with precision, describing it clearly, explaining it logically, and teaching it with reproducibility. That is the gap the MCC comes to fill. What the acronym MCC means MCC stan...

Why Is Casino Dance Not Understood?

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  🇬🇧  Why Is Casino Dance Not Understood? Casino dance is probably one of the most widely practiced social dances in the world within the universe of Cuban popular dance music and the social dances historically associated with it . However, there is a deep problem that is rarely stated clearly: Casino is danced… but not understood. The origin of the problem Casino is a dance of empirical transmission. This means that its learning process has historically not been the result of a structured methodological system, but rather of imitation, repetition, and spontaneous adaptation among dancers. For decades, knowledge has been transmitted in a practical way: someone teaches a figure, someone else repeats it, it is added to the repertoire, and so on. This mechanism has allowed its expansion. But it has also produced an inevitable consequence: the absence of a clear system of understanding. Dancing is not the same as knowing A dancer may execute dozens, even hundreds, of figures, ...