[Tango-L] Leading with the hands.

[Crrtango@aol.com]

If you have to push signals on your partners back then you have not learned 
to lead yet. This subject has come up before on the list and I thought it was a 
joke. It ranks up there with the one about leading with your head that 
someone actually wrote a few years ago. I am surprised to see that people still 
believe this. Unless there is some irony intended and I missed it, one never leads 
with the hand and certainly not with the fingers pushing buttons!?! 
Whoever taught that doesn't know how to lead and probably doesn't even know 
how to dance very well at all. Famous or not!
The fundamentals of tango are very simple and straight forward but very 
difficult to master. There are no shortcuts to leading. You can only master them by 
practice.
No wonder the peripatetic Argentine tango teachers love us.   We'll believe 
anything - and even pay 
for it. 
Come on, guys (or anyone else learning to lead)! I know the power and control 
that you love to have by leading is intoxicating, but you still have to work 
for it (with your upper body, not your hands.)   Your partner does not have a 
control panel built into her back. 

Who is teaching this stuff?

Cheers,
Charles