[Tango-L] Tango-L Digest, Vol 18, Issue 20

[ceverett@ceverett.com]

Sure:

When your body ages and you must dance in tight spaces, you have to give
up a large amount of whatever repertoire you had when you were young,
and had much more space to dance in.

Sorry for being obtuse.

Christopher

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:47:07 -0500, "michael doyle" <2tango99 at gmail.com>
said:
> Christopher,
> 
> Could you elaborate on your second paragraph below? I do not think I
> understand completely what you are getting at.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Message: 13
> > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:03:28 -0500
> > From: ceverett at ceverett.com
> > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] what makes milonguero, milonguero
> >
> > In other words:
> >
> > Draw a circle and label it "Salon", then draw a smaller circle
> > inside that, label that as "Close Embrace", then inside the
> > second circle draw a third you can finally label "Milonguero".
> >
> > The Milonguero Circle is the set of limitations imposed by
> > accelerating decrepitude and dancing in tight quarters in
> > BA over the last 20 or so years.  Of course, there is the
> > additional set of circumstances that most new "Milonguero"
> > dancers ape the styles of the lucky few dancers that found
> > a style many of their partners enjoy or ended up in a movie.
> >
> > For those of us with a bit more space and athletic ability
> > (mostly balance), we have more possibilities, and we should
> > use them to develop our own styles, inside the limitations
> > that the social norms of tango impose, of course.
> >
> > Christopher
> >
> >
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