[Tango-L] BsAs glow (previously bad, wrong, Nuevo)

[Tango For Her]

With all due respect ... WOW!  

I mean "due respect" because I'm sure we've each had
our own experiences.

But ... a woman has been dancing for a year or two. 
Her softness, her connection is at whatever stage it
is.  She goes to BsAs.  She returns.  Her
softness/connection is soooooo much more beautiful! 

Whatever the discussion is about retention, or
measuring it months later, I relish dancing with a
woman as she returns.  I want to be amongst the first.
 Because, from dance to dance, she gets normalized
back into the level of her community.  And, to be
there to dance with her when she first returns is such
a pleasure.  

Whether she can explain it in technical terms, or not,
many times, she has learned to control her weight and
positioning, making her connection much better.  








--- Victor Bennetts <Victor_Bennetts at infosys.com>
wrote:

> 
> Is it tango osmosis or tango radioactivity? Either
> way it is a common phenomenon. Someone goes away for
> a few weeks to BsAs and when they get back everyone
> wants to dance with them and see how they have
> changed. They have been exposed to tango plutonium
> over in BsAs and are basking in the 'BsAs glow'.
> 
> I wonder how real people's perceptions of each other
> can be in this situation and to what extent they are
> influenced by circumstance, accident and projected
> expectations. For instance, compare the way people
> say their dance has changed when they first get back
> from BsAs with the way others perceive it and there
> is often a mismatch. Also you might have a fabulous
> dance with someone the first day back only to have a
> terrible dance a week later, or visa versa.
> 
> IMHO, there is only so much that you can change in
> your technique while you are away, no matter how
> many lessons you take. Most people would be trying
> to jam in as much social dancing as they can manage,
> and in that context breaking and remaking your
> technique would be pretty much impossible. Your
> navigation may improve a bit if you are a leader and
> you might have a slightly better appreciation for a
> wider range of styles as a follower, but your basic
> technique is not going to have changed too much.
> 
> Much more telling in my view is the lasting
> impression left a few months later which has nothing
> to do with osmosis and everything to do with
> practice and hard work. In our local community there
> are a few followers here who have just gone ahead in
> amazing strides in the last three to six months and
> the only radioactive material they have been exposed
> to is, I am sure, their own hard work. One day you
> take them in the embrace, take a few steps and you
> start to wonder if they are the same person and say
> - wow that was as good as anything I experienced in
> BsAs.
> 
> Victor Bennetts
> 
> TFH>Osmosis:  I love being one of the first leaders
> to
> >dance with a woman when she has come back from
> BsAs.
> >She has a much improved connection.



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