[Tango-L] Surplus Tanguera - Not

[Anton Stanley]

"you don't choose a partner during the cortina...the cortina 
gives you time to leave the floor, sit down, re-adjust and look around 
to see who you might want to make contact with for the next tanda."

Yes all of 20 or 30 seconds. In BA it works fine because everyone
(customarily) uses the cabeceo. The woman can avoid the gaze of suitors
and wait for whom she prefers. Elsewhere, guys can leave their partner
at the end of a tanda and march straight over to the next partner THEY
choose. Makes it very difficult in our polite culture for them to
refuse, even for a rest. For that, they have to leave the room.

Anton