[Tango-L] Different feeling in tango

[Nina Pesochinsky]

Noticing the anatomical differences between genders is how 
3-year-olds learn that mommy and daddy are different.  One might 
expect grown men and women to embrace their (and others') gender in a 
more sphisticated way.  But then, in tango, you never know...:)

The key words in Myk's post are "playing a role".  Real dancers do 
not play a role.  They dance who they are.  If a woman can't quite 
figure out the power of her gender, she is in trouble, just as a man 
swimming in feminine energy.

C.G. Jung wrote extensively on anima and animus, and the power forces 
in people's psyche that demand the fusion to happen when people are 
in their late 30s or so.

Why is it that the Argentines have no issues with gender roles?  They 
dance as men and women, and, if those roles don't work, they go to 
some milonga gay.  But they certainly do not try to justify 
abandoning traditional gender roles in the traditional milongas.  The 
Westerners seem to want to dance at the milonga gay, but refuse to 
call it that , insisting on calling it Argentine tango, acceptable 
social tango and want not. :)

Actually, I am not against tango in energetic gender drag.  I just 
want to know when and where it is happening, so that I can be prepared. :)

Nina



At 04:53 AM 7/24/2008, Myk Dowling wrote:
>Dubravko Kakarigi wrote:
>
> > I am not a bisexual man by any means, but am a firm believer that
> > each one of us has those two components in us and have learned to
> > enjoy my own feminine in tango dance as much as I do my masculine.
> > Does that make any sense?
>
>Tango has definite male and female roles in the dance. To say that only
>a person born with a penis can play a male role, and only a person born
>with a vagina can play a female role seems frankly absurd.
>
>--
>Myk Dowling
>
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