[Tango-L] Gender Imbalance in Tango

[Tom Stermitz]

Thanks for the flattery, but as they say, "there's more than one way  
to do it".

You can't provide a formula that exactly works for everyone. My  
suggestions are useful for teachers to try things, fail and try again,  
and think through their methods. I mean, it's easy for me to say "Make  
the guys feel successful", but in practice each teacher has to make it  
work with their own personality, and their own culture.

I think the biggest problem is that teachers present material at the  
level they understand it, not in the layers that make it easy for  
beginners to achieve success.

I've worked with some teachers. The group in Ann Arbor asked me to  
help build a curriculum. They have taken my ideas, made them their  
own, and gone much further than me.

On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Mario wrote:
>  The above makes SUPER good sense to me! ..I remember when first  
> seeing
>  and becoming 'hooked' on AT, the only thing that I prayed for, was  
> to be able
>  to navigate a revolution of the dance floor..much as Tom describes  
> it.