[Tango-L] Dancing with Beginners

[Stephen.P.Brown@dal.frb.org]

I think it is fairly common in tango communities to see some men and some 
women grab beginners to dance with them.  In some cases, those doing the 
grabbing may be among the less popular dancers in their own group who are 
taking advantage of newcomers.  In other cases, people are trying out the 
beginners to see whether they have the aptitude (a basic set of 
movement/music/balance skills) to make it worth investing the time.  Those 
lacking the aptitude are quickly dropped. 

Newcomers may be preferred to those long-time members of the community who 
have long demonstrated a lack of compatibilty in dancingl.  Without 
dancing with someone, it may be difficult to actually know how comfortable 
it is to dance with someone.  You can only see how they look.

With best regards,
Steve