[Tango-L] Men dancing with men

[Derik Rawson]

Dear Sergio:

Thank you for the clarification.  I agree with you. 
Men should seek to become better leaders, and women
should seek to become better followers.  Men and women
should dance together whenever there is a choice.  Men
should not chose to be followers and women should not
choose to be leaders.

Derik
d.rawson at rawsonweb.com

--- Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Caroline says:  1 - "Isn't it true that at the
> beginning, when tango first 
> began, men were dancing with men before they became
> "learned" enough in 
> order to dance with a woman?
> 
> 2 - Why couldn't that be the case for women? Why
> wouldn't a woman want to 
> learn to lead so she would learn to become an even
> better follower?
> 
> 3 - What's wrong with wanting to learn more about
> tango from your partner's 
> perspective? I mean, really, what's going to happen
> if a woman learns to 
> lead? Will the world of tango fall off its axis?
> 
> Caroline "
> 
> I have noticed that many posters depart from wrong
> or equivocal assumptions 
> to draw false or equivocal conclusions.
> 
> 1 - In this particular case we correctly say that at
> the beginning men 
> danced with men to become learned enough in order to
> dance with women.
> 
> 2 - Here we are assuming that when a woman learns to
> lead she becomes a 
> better follower.
> 
>      This could be a matter for discussion.
> 
> 3 - (see above)This is another subject that deserves
> discussion.
> 
> The false premise here is that men practiced with
> each other as followers to 
> become better leaders.
> 
> The truth was : Men had to practice with each  other
> because there were no 
> women to do it with.  If doing the follower's part
> made them better leaders 
> that was an added bonus but not the purpose of this
> practice.
> 
> They practiced as followers to give a partner the
> chance to do his leading 
> part knowing that later it would be his turn to
> lead. No man practiced as a 
> follower to then be able to dance as a follower
> either. They sometimes do it 
> in exhibitions.
> 
> Men then always danced as leaders at the milongas,
> they never intended to 
> dance as followers.
> 
> There is a big difference between what was/is done
> by men and what we are 
> discussing here  which is women dancing as leaders
> at the milongas.
> 
> Another warm day in the north east, enjoy it,
> Sergio.
> 
>
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