[Tango-L] Andres Amarilla in close embrace

[Michael]

> Dear Michael:
> 
> Maybe you and Sean and Trini can demonstrate all these
> moves for us in "close embrace all the time" in a
> video, but now we suddenly hear than you yourself are
> not interested.  Why is that????
> 
> Derik
> d.rawson at rawsonweb.com
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Derik:
You have a pernicious habit of stringing extraneous writing
and presenting it as one thought.

When I say social dancing, I mean dancing on a crowded dance
floor where there is insufficient space for wild figures.
Based on Sergio's description of the video, it sounded like
a lot of room is necessary because he wanted to see somebody
execute Andres's figures in close embrace.

If Andres and his partner have the entire floor to
themselves for their video, they can do anything. If they go
to Tom Stermitz's Memorial Day Festival in Denver, they
won't have the space. I went to last year's festival and
found I barely had enough room to breathe.

My definition of social tango is dancing on a crowded dance
floor where navigation is more important than figures. At
the last all night milonga in New York, a careless woman
executed a very high boleo, kicking my partner in the ribs.
The second time she kicked the table we were sitting. 

You still haven't answered my question to you. Name some
figures YOU can't do in close embrace.

Better yet, why don't you go down to BA and teach the
Argentines how to dance since you know so much. Go complain
to some milongueros their dance is boring to you. Tell the
DJ his music selection is terrible because he's pacifying
the close embrace crowd. I'm sure I could get a collection
from the list to buy you a ONE WAY plane ticket.

Michael
Washington, DC
Allergies better today

> 
> --- Michael <tangomaniac at cavtel.net> wrote:
> 
> > > For those that think that any move of tango may be
done in close embrace I  recommend that they watch the
Andres Amarilla Videos (Nuevo Tango) and try  to reproduce
his figures in close embrace.
> > >  Sergio.
> >
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> > *************** Without looking at the video, if it's
> > not SOCIAL tango, I'm
> > not interested.
> > SHOW tango doesn't interest me.
> > 
> > Michael
> > Washington, DC