[Tango-L] Ladies Leading

[Shelley Delayne]

As a lady who plans to go to the new "Leading Ladies" practica in LA  
and is entirely grateful for its inception, I thought I'd throw in my  
point of view, lest the lovely organizer of said practica takes  
umbrage at all the outrage over ladies leading, and cancels the  
practica.

Maybe some of the women who will go to this practica lead socially,  
or plan to. I don't know.
Personally, I don't ever plan to or want to lead at a "regular" milonga.

However, I very much want to improve my understanding of the dance by  
learning to lead. Someday in the distant future, I would love to be a  
teacher of tango and being able to understand leading as well as  
following will, I feel, make me a much better teacher when that time  
comes. Also, when trying to tempt non-tango friends to try tango, I  
have discovered that leading them in even a small bit of tango piques  
their interest FAR more than any of my verbal enthusiasms about the  
dance. : )

And thus, I am very, very excited that there will be a "private"  
setting where I can practice leading.

: )