[Tango-L] The thrill is gone... how to get it back?

[Christopher L. Everett]

Something doesn't work here; in your first email you said:
> When I first started going out to Milongas to dance I didn't know anyone 
> (because I was new in town) nor all the rules and had a GREAT time asking 
> everyone and anyone to dance, even though I couldn't execute many figures or 
> have much technique for that matter,
but in your reply to Lucia, you claim that you started dancing tango
more than 10 years ago:
> I love music, I am a professional musician but never really danced much 
> until i started Tango more than 10 years ago.
And you finish by saying:
> I didn't learn moves but took lessons to understand the codes of the 
> community (which is quite complex in Paris).
I don't know how things work in Paris.  There's an upper limit to the
amount of behavioral complexity groups can generate.  It can't be any
harder than Buenos Aires, and that is a simple environment compared to
say, being in the Republican party in the US.

Like everything else, tango is a discipline.  Discipline implies the
presence of constraints.  Dancing tango means pairing a certain type
of music with a certain way of moving, done with a fluidity that shows
unconscious competence, ie mastery of the form.

What I get from what you write is that you really haven't mastered the
art form to the point where you can afford to just let go, which is to
say you probably have to pay attention all the time.

Christopher