[Tango-L] Fwd: Women's technique

[Caroline Polack]

I dont know...it's damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I could go into a lengthy explanation of that but i think we all know what I 
mean. In Buenos Aires, where I have a ton of choices of leaders to choose 
from, I would be much more discerning but in North America, when the choices 
are so few and there's about 20 great followers per one good leader, the 
competion is overwhelming.

So, I do lower my standards a bit and try to make the best of it. The thing 
is that intermediate leaders do improve, especially if they're bitten by the 
tango bug. If I am friendly with them now, then I've got a much better 
chance of dancing with them when they finally become good leaders.

The big question is how can leaders become better dancers if we don't give 
them a chance?

It's a very grey muddy area with way too many variables for me to black and 
white about this subject.


----Original Message Follows----
From: NANCY <ningle_2000 at yahoo.com>
To: Caroline Polack <runcarolinerun at hotmail.com>
CC: tango-l <Tango-L at mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L]  Fwd: Women's technique
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:57:32 -0700 (PDT)


--- Caroline Polack <runcarolinerun at hotmail.com>
wrote:
 > we could ignore them and sit all night or dance with
 > them and work harder at
 > maintaining our balance and axis while they get
 > practice. If we don't do
 > that, then we look like fools on the floor not to
 > mention very ungraceful.

On the other hand.....if Trini accepts a dance with
big, off-balance guy and compensates for his lack of
skills,  then he goes bouncing off the dancefloor,
very proud of the fact that he danced so beautifully
with "the best follower" in the room and it is the
rest of us who are bad followers.  What is his
incentive to get better?  Sorry, but we have too many
of those guys on the dance floors and on Tango-L
already.  I can agree to be ' more grounded' as long
as it is no different than how I would dance with a
good leader.  If he is pushing and pulling, I take my
hand  away.  He understands that.  Even the rankest
beginner should not be pulling me off axis.  If he is
off beat, I can dance to the beat  until he gets it.
If he is truly awful, I can suggest we sit down and
watch the dancers.

Several folks have posted here recently about how
unforgiving the portenas are about dancing with
tourists.  No, they are not.  However, they will not
dance with a bad dancer out of charity....unless, of
course, they are bad followers - and there are plenty
of those in Buenos Aires, too.  Some of those couples
even enter the Campeonato Mundial.



<<Rito es la danza en tu vida
      y el tango que tu amas
      te  quema en su llama>>
de: Bailarina de tango
por:  Horacio Sanguinetti



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