[Tango-L] appropriate? I don't think so.

[WHITE 95 R]

I wont comment on whether Alberto's private email is appropriate or not, but 
I think that making this private message public is a little weird. I'd 
suggest that if you find his message offensive, you tell him so privately. I 
think that posting his email to the entire list takes the whole thing to a 
different level. OTOH, perhaps Alberto should make this topic available to 
the whole forum. After all, the discussion was taking a turn to the sensuous 
(perhaps erotic) dimension of the "close embrace" ;-)

Manuel


>From: "Melanie Eskoff" <melanieeskoff at austin.rr.com>
>To: <tango-l at mit.edu>
>Subject: [Tango-L] appropriate?  I don't think so.
>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:38:51 -0500
>
>Dear list,
>
>Just received this private note in response to my post about "connection" 
>in dance.  Am curious to have your opinion.
>Melanie
>
>Body contact , connection , embrace....
>
>A chapter is devoted to embrace in a book  ...... Kamasutra text as 
>translated by Richard Burton , not the actor, but the british army officer 
>that also translate
>the 1001 nights in the beginning of the XX century.
>
>This is part of what the many unknown writers of original Kamasutra 
>consider about embrace
>
>So much theory ... so little practice ......
>
>warm regards
>alberto gesualdi
>buenos aires
>
>CHAPTER II. OF THE EMBRACE
>
>Now the embrace which indicates the mutual love of a man and woman who have 
>come together is of four kinds:
>
>Touching
>Rubbing
>Piercing
>Pressing
>
>The action in each case is denoted by the meaning of the word which stands 
>for it.
>
>When a man under some pretext or other goes in front or alongside of a 
>woman and touches her body with his own, it is called the `touching 
>embrace'.
>
>When a woman in a lonely place bends down, as if to pick up something, and 
>pierces, as it were, a man sitting or standing, with her breasts, and the 
>man in return takes hold of them, it is called a `piercing embrace'.
>
>The above two kinds of embrace take place only between persons who do not, 
>as yet, speak freely with each other.
>
>When two lovers are walking slowly together, either in the dark, or in a 
>place of public resort, or in a lonely place, and rub their bodies against 
>each other, it is called a `rubbing embrace'.
>
>When on the above occasion one of them presses the other's body forcibly 
>against a wall or pillar, it is called a `pressing embrace'.
>
>These two last embraces are peculiar to those who know the intentions of 
>each other.
>
>
>Melanie Eskoff <melanieeskoff at austin.rr.com> escribió:
>   Michael wrote: " My observation, not based on scientific sampling, is 
>that those who dance close are more interested in connection and those that 
>dance open seem to be more interested in figures."
>
>   Open (which dosen't mean arms length) salon is only danced well when the 
>connection is paramount to both partners. Frame and connection are exactly 
>the elements that make figures really work, otherwise they fall apart, 
>literally and physically. I would say that open requires more connection, 
>not less. The connection required is not as blatant as close dancing and 
>not easy, but well worth the effort.
>
>   Connection and communication in dance is not just a product of greater 
>square inches of body contact.
>
>   ME
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