[Tango-L] women leading

[Euroking@aol.com]

Life  is a matter of choice, fate may be a hunter, but still we have choices. 
 We can stay in a box, and memorize its  contents or we can step out from 
time to time and enjoy an even bigger  world.  Lead and follow were words  chosen 
to be gender neutral, so why should we ‘regenderize’ them, to coin a  word?  
  
For  me, and it is for me, I love Tango because it gives me the opportunity 
to  lead and share for a common experience.  However, for me never to follow, 
IMO is selfish, as would limit my  ability to lead if I did not know the direct 
effect of that lead.  At a Milonga, it is and I emphasis my  choice to lead, 
I don’t think I would enjoy dancing as a follow (I am open to  change, but 
that is my current opinion.) 
Lessons  and Practicas are a different story. There the object is to learn 
and improve,  to experiment, to experience and adapt.  There, the roles that 
each take are strictly a matter of choice to what  each feels will help them 
improve. Some stay in a box, some step out of the box.  It is choice. 
At  milongas, again it is choice, whatever each is comfortable with, is what 
they  should do.  For me, Tango is not a  furtherance of tradition as define 
by a select few, but fun and enjoyment that  grows from a tradition, a 
tradition if I have been reading my history correctly,  that has grown on change, 
albeit slow at times, but never the less  change. 
Just  some thoughts, 
Bill  in Seattle
 
 
In a message dated 5/25/2006 1:28:26 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
donnay at donnay.net writes:

Not only  that, but we are shaping what exists in Buenos Aires. When I lead  
in
practicas and lessons in BsAs, Argentine women will ask me later to  dance 
with
them in the milonga (early, though-later and the "old guard"  will get 
upset.) I
have also led men (Argentine) in the milongas in  BsAs.

Would this have happened without us foreigners in BsAs? Maybe.  But not as
quickly. Would tango be as popular in BsAs without us? Maybe,  but not as 
much.
Who can tell? Who gets to decide?

Some philosopher  once said "You can't look at a thing without changing it".
Maybe we  non-Argentines have been looking at this too much.

Lois in Minneapolis  (Loisita is B Aires)

> So the question I wonder and am interested in  asking the community is are
> there those trying to replicate what  exists in Buenos Aires, or are we
> ourselves shaping what it is going  to look like here in the States?
>
>  Scott
>



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