[Tango-L] Middle of the floor

[Huck Kennedy]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:23 PM, David Thorn <thorn-inside at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Keith Elshaw wrote:
> > People in the ronda all-of-a-sudden found/find themselves being
> > blind-sided from bodies coming out of nowhere.
>
> > People dancing in the middle are ignorant, aggressive, rude people who
> > inevitably bump respectful dancers who don't deserve it. Causing bad
> > feelings.
>
> It sounds like you are presuming that any dancers who might be in the middle will
> dart in and out of the ronda without regard for the rest of us.  I don't believe
> that is necessarily true.

     Someone else besides Keith brought this up saying nuevo dancers
were so ignorant that they danced in the middle.  Me, I have the
opposite view--I'm very grateful when people who want to dance in
place and/or do a lot of big fancy "nuevo" moves confine themselves to
the middle of the floor where they are out of everyone else's way and
thus rendered relatively harmless.

     They have to stay in the middle, though--as Keith seemingly
alludes, if they dart in and out from the middle into the ronda, then
they are worse than if they never went into the middle at all.

Huck