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

[Floyd Baker]

Victor.

I don't understand why a follower has to go through a lot of hard work
and practice to be a good follower.  

To me all they need is an understanding of what Tango is about.   The
rest should come naturally.   

Of course many don't understand the dance, nor ever will.  Certainly
there are those who do, on their own.   And others seem to too, after
visiting Bs.As.  Or in fact visiting an at least 10 year old Tango
community for awhile..., which seems to me to be about the time it
takes for most Tango communities to understand enough to approximate
Bs.As.    

Is that only because they've practiced and worked so hard, for so
long..?   So they look like an Argentine doing Tango...?     But still
do not understand it?   I hope it's more than that.   Because I'm here
and waiting for ten years to go by.    :-)
    
Floyd




On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:56:47 +1100, you 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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