[Tango-L] Keep away!

[Keith]

I'm sorry Krasimir and probably Igor, but I still can't agree. Tonight I 
hope to dance with many women. I will embrace them, they will embrace me. 
I will feel their hearts beating, I will share their breath, inhale their 
smell, feel their warmth and, hopefully, we'll both be smiling at the end 
of each dance. 

You say ... "You can feel the same things without ever moving at all. So 
these things may be pleasure, but this pleasure is derived from our mutual 
man-woman attraction, not the dance".

This just isn't true. These women are not my girlfriends, maybe not even 
friends and, if they're visitors, I won't even have met them before. And 
yet, I will still feel all these things. You say ... "it's not the dance .." 
But it is the dance. If there were no dance, there would be no embrace ... 
and everything that follows. All these feelings are a direct result of the 
the dance and the music and, to me, they're an intrinsic part of the dance. 
As I've said before, it's these feelings that make Tango so different from 
any other dance. Without them - it's just DanceSport. 

Keith, HK


On Fri Dec 28 15:10 , Krasimir Stoyanov  sent:

>It is first a dance. This is the primary quality.
>Then, after that, it is a social dance.
>That was what Igor tried to say.
>It is nice to hold a woman, feel her breathing and heart beating etc.,  
>but this is something secondary to a dance. You can feel the same  
>things without ever moving at all. So these things may be pleasure,  
>but this pleasure is derived from our mutual man-woman attraction, not  
>the dance. The dance may intensify matter, but still, any nice mutual  
>movement will do the same. So that is why it has nothing to do with  
>tango dancing.
>
>
>Quoting David Hodgson DHodgson at tangolabyrinth.com>:
>
>> But primary and utmost. Never forget this is a nice, simple, fun, social
>> dance.
>
>
>
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