[Tango-L] on open-embrace teaching (was something on inventing steps)

[Keith]

 On Sun Apr  6  9:40 , Tom Stermitz  sent:

>
>In my experience, this is false. I see the opposite, i.e. men don't  
>stay for tricky figures, rather they stay when the material is  
>presented in a way that makes them feel successful.
>

This is true up to a certain point, when the guy begins to feel 
successful. This is usually when the girls start to enjoy dancing 
with him in the milongas. At this point he thinks he knows all the 
basic stuff and starts to experiment with fancier figures.  Partly 
it's just a competitive instinct because he wants to compete with 
other guys doing the same thing. As for the girls, yes, as beginners 
they're impressed by guys who dance fancy figures. But it seems 
to me that the better the girl becomes, the less she wants to dance 
fancy figures. She may go to all the advanced classes with the 
visiting Argentines but it seems to be more for the style, feeling 
and technique. The guys go for the figures.

Keith, HK