[Tango-L] Invitation & refusal

[Pat Petronio]

Long live the cabeceo!

It protects everyone. The tradition developed for good reasons, as did the 
other milonga codes.
The communication involved is uncomplicated body language. Difficult to 
teach? What's so hard about it? As long as you can make eye contact with 
another person, you can do it.

When visiting tango communities where cabeceo use is virtually non-existent, 
it seems somewhat harder to get a dance. My observation is that people tend 
to invite only those dancers they already know (possible already knowing 
they would accept), because they were using the direct invitation method. 
Whereas the cabeceo method seems to open up the likelihood of invitations to 
dance to others, too.

Regards to all

Patricia Petronio
Tango Salón Adelaide
www.tangosalonadelaide.blogspot.com