[Tango-L] Varieties of cruzada-leads, and "Gustavo for beginners"

[ceverett@ceverett.com]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:53:04 -0600, "Brian Dunn"
<brian at danceoftheheart.com> said:

> 
> Incidentally, he had everyone START with an embrace that was intimate
> enough
> for the man's right hand to reach around and be underneath his partner's
> right arm...justified because, as he said, "we LIKE this situation!  She
> knows I want to be with her!  If I don't hold her like this, in this
> situation, maybe soon she doesn't want to be with ME!"  
> 
> So much for "Nuevo Tango" and "Open Embrace"... ;) 

Indeed, though the most pretentious of the Nuevo people claim to have 
left Gustavo behind.  I think I hear the word "grandfather" used with
(dis)respect to him once at a private party in Buenos Aires.  I found
it an extraordinary experience, given who it was coming from.

Christopher