[Tango-L] Expanding social dancing to exhibition level?

[Keith]

Chris UK,

The man leads the Giro and the woman dances it. What is so difficult to understand about that?

And the Giro does have a prescribed sequence of steps for as long as the man leads it. Every leader and every follower 
eventually learns it - hopefully within the first 3-month of Tango tuition. They also learn how to change the Giro into to 
something else, on any given step - that might take a little longer. But each step is still led because the Giro is being led. 
There is no contradiction in what Manuel is saying.

Everything else, such as leading every individual step of the Giro is BS. Unless, your still plodding around, doing single 
Giros to a very slow beat. Fine when you're learning or dancing with a beginner, but boring after a while.

Multiple Giros with double-times are great fun - but only when both partners know the code and have the ability to lead, 
follow and dance it. A thought just struck me - Chris - do you actually know how to lead a Giro without having to lead 
every individual step? The woman won't dance it on her own, without the correct lead - there's nothing automatic about it.

Keith, HK


 On Sun Aug 26  8:54 , "Chris, UK"  sent:

>"WHITE 95 R" white95r at hotmail.com> said:
>
>> ... it would be like having to lead every crossed and open 
>> steps of the giro and that's obviously not the case.
>
>and then:
>
>> Obviously the man is leading the woman to take each and every step,
>
>What is it that causes seemingly every explanation of the "code of the tango" to contradict itself within just a few sentences?
>
>> but it's her responsability to follow the code of the tango.
>
>If not within the same sentence?
>
>> Once the firts step of a giro has been led, (direction and motion) the 
>> other steps come in a prescribed sequence.
>
>Perhaps it is because the code's proponents seem not to have grasped that this dance is improvised. There are no prescribed sequences.
>
>Chris
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