[Tango-L] dancing with a broom

[Astrid]

> In your inventory of poetic imagery you seem to have forgotten the broom:

yes, and dancing with a broom is the only thing that has actually been done 
successfully, IMO, you can see the performance in one of the CITTA videos. 
Two brooms actually, and they look more elegant in the hands of this 
tanguero than quite a few women I have seen...They follow perfectly too. 
Now, I do not recommend exchanging your "follow" for a couple of brooms but 
if you used them to practise enough at home to reach the skill of this 
master, it might improve things at the milongas considerably...; )



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>> 3. You dance tango rather like a broom than a violin. (by Igor Polk)
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> In case you're not familiar with the tradition of "bailar con la escoba"
>
> don't forget to read the manual before dancing with a broom:
>
> "Come, old broomstick, you are needed,
> Take these rags and wrap them round you!
> Long my orders you have heeded,
> By my wishes now I've bound you.
> Have two legs and stand,
> And a head for you.
> Run, and in your hand
> Hold a bucket too."
>
> (Sorcerer's apprentice. Goethe. 
> http://www.fln.vcu.edu/goethe/zauber_e3.html 
> [http://www.fln.vcu.edu/goethe/zauber_e3.html])
>
> with thanks to all poets for their valuable contributions and for widening 
> our poetic horizon
>
> Annanymous broom
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