[Tango-L] Aerials in social dancing

[NANCY]

--- David Thorn <thorn-inside at hotmail.com> wrote:


> 
> Actually, NOT acceptable socially.  And rather
> dangerous. 

And yet people do aerials socially.  As a worst case
example:  on my first tango trip to BsAs, in 1996, 
there was a couple from the western US who, during a
swing tanda at a milonga, did several aerials in the
middle of the floor.  Did they get away with it?  Oh
yes, because the Argentines were too polite to
embarrass them, but I was embarrassed that these two
ballroom trained folks were so inconsiderate and so
egotistical.  They did it several times at various
milongas.  NOT what I had come to Argentina to see!

At least swing is a 'slot dance' and thus it did not
interrupt the ronda too much.

Nancy