[Tango-L] Nuevo lead and follow and repressed teaching

[Astrid]

The idea is to find an instructor who is able to teach you what you need 
to know. Tango is not really about where you put your legs, the lead 
comes first, the legs follow that.

Niki Papapetrou wrote:
> from my own personal experience, I stopped taking classes in my home 
> town because the classes were all about STEPS ('put your left leg 
> here, and then your right leg there...' ) I could just as easily 
> practice technique in  a milonga or in my own living room, without the 
> 'pleasure ' of being manhandled by some guy who was simply trying to 
> get his feet in the right spot, without it even crossing his, or the 
> instructor's, mind that he actually needed to learn how to  LEAD. 
>