[Tango-L] Choreography vs improvisation

[Chris, UK]

> Vocabulary is like words in a dictionary. You have to know the definition 
> of each word and have them fit correctly in a sentence, e.g. singular vs. 
> plural, adjective vs. noun. Tango vocabulary is the step

False assertion and good analogy.

Just as a speaker does not have to know the definition of a word in order to 
use it meaningfully, nor does the dancer have to know the definition of a 
step.

Definitions are for linguists and tangologists. For people who do it rather 
than study others doing it, meaning suffices amply.

> Only the leader knows what is going to happen next.

A collision.

The leader who knows he doesn't is the one I'd rather be next to.

Chris