[Tango-L] Is it Balls, or just a Heel?/Cabeceo

[Steve Littler]

Yes, that would be great! But pretty much no one uses it in America. 
I've never seen it "taught" in any Tango classes here. When I try it, I 
pretty much never get a glance back. The women don't even look for it 
and entertain themselves chatting while they wait for someone to come 
interrupt and ask them to dance. I've had popular dancers ask me at the 
end of the night why I didn't ask them to dance that night when I had 
tried to cabeceo them all night long. So now when I just go up to a 
woman and ask for the dance, I pretty much dance all night.

(Heh - I do have a couple of close friends at my local milonga that I 
can just nod to and they nod back and it is "on." But they are the 
exception to the rule. I can't do that when I visit other milongas. When 
I do get a decline, I always take it _very_ graciously. And try again 
another time or another night. Usually the declines are from popular 
dancers at the end of the evening whose feet are aching and may have 
even taken their shoes off. Next time I ask earlier in the evening.)

I think it is just part of our American culture that nobody bothers to 
teach it or enforce it here.

El Stevito la luna de noche de Gainesville :-)

Dubravko Kakarigi wrote:
> I suppose the use of good old cabeceo has its advantages, no?