[Tango-L] Walking off the floor during a tanda

[Janis Kenyon]

Iron Logic wrote:
We can express our likes, dislikes and what is not accpetable. and how we do
that depends on who we are. It is easy to find excuse for ANY crime in the
world. Dumping the leader like that is tango crime:)).>>


Exactly one month ago, I saw a American woman walk off the floor during a
tanda in Lo de Celia.  She was in Buenos Aires for her first visit, and it
was only her second milonga.  She knew that if she wasn't comfortable with
her partner, she could tell him thanks and walk off the floor.  No reason
has to be given.  A man knows that he isn't going to convince a woman to
finish a tanda.  Everyone sees it happening because dancers don't leave the
floor during a tanda.  It makes a clear statement to the man and all the
women in the room.  She later told me that he was drunk, and she was
uncomfortable.  She didn't want to suffer through the tanda.  This is a
public embarrassment to the man, but it happens.


Janis Kenyon
Buenos Aires