[Tango-L] women leading

[Derik Rawson]

Dear Tine:

No one frowns on it.  It is US American Tango.  People
get upset when you call it Argetine Tango.

Derik
d.rawson at rawsonweb.com


--- Yale Tango Club <yaletangoclub at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi
>   In my club, a year or two ago, some girls were
> starting to lead. It's fun, it's a new skill, and we
> would do it whenever we felt like it. Since our
> gender balance is usually fairly close to equal,
> some of the guys found themselves on the sidelines
> without a partner, watching the goings on. When
> there were several, they would usually start
> complaining, of course they also found it secretly
> exciting, but that's another story. Several
> suggested I email out an executive order that there
> shall be no more such girl-leading while there were
> perfectly good guys right there. I did not, of
> course. We like to dance with guys, but we also like
> to lead. They felt kinda stupid all the while they
> were yammering. Then somehow they decided they would
> try following and still dance with the girls. Last
> year we started a separate mini-practica of which
> the condition was that people lead and follow the
> same amount of time. So we still dance with guys but
> we get to lead them half the time. The
>  guys in the practica are getting really good at
> following and the girls at leading, especially from
> trying it on guys. It spills over into social
> dancing somewhat and it's a lot of fun. We are all
> becoming better dancers.
>   I don't really care whether this would be frowned
> upon in Argentina (or in Texas). Go ahead, make my
> day!
>   Tine 
>    
>   Tine
> 
> Lois Donnay <donnay at donnay.net> wrote:
>   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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