[Tango-L] Don't blame your follower

[Tango For Her]

Hehe.  I don't hold any patents!
   
  I have to agree, in part.  I can dance with a woman who is heavier (in weight), but dances light as a feather.  She must have "learned" that somewhere!  
   
  I know, from classes, that dancing with a man, again heavier in weight, and just leading something like a pivot is not a joyous occassion.  Yet, dancing with a woman who is completely new to the dance, it IS joyous to just play with a pivot.
   
  Of course, there is the part of me that finds inate pleasure in finding the least little bit of elasticity in a woman's body.  I think it must be a learned response. "If I have provided her with a movement that allows her to be elastic, she must like it. With a man, that wouldn't be true."  I admit that I must have been conditioned to think that.  
   
  Still, I am sticking with my single-minded thought that women have this inate musicality or sense that being elastic is good and men blow in the wind like rocks.  It's just me and my silly little world.  :o)
   
  After writing all of that, Huck, I have to agree with you whole-heartedly.  But, I'm still sticking to my way of thinking.  It's my whole mindset on the dance floor.  What would I do without it?  -Oh, God!  Don't answer that!
   
  

Huck Kennedy <huck at eninet.eas.asu.edu> wrote:
  Tango For Her writes:
> I know it's a generalization, but, I find that, "in general"
> women have more of an inherent musicality in their bodies
> than men.


Clearly this is true, since the vast majority of
musicians, both in rock bands and symphony orchestras,
are women, and women, in general, completely dominate
the music industry.


Now let's get to the truth of the matter--any
advantage women have in dancing comes from their being
shunted off to dance class at an early age, while the
boys were playing sports and/or running around in the
woods with toy guns pretending to be on army patrol.
The idea that women somehow "have more of an inherent
musicality in their bodies" than men is patent nonsense.

Huck
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