[Tango-L] Line of Dance

[Amaury de Siqueira]

We all know that obedience to the line of dance is simply a matter of training...period.
As I visit different communities and befriend hospitable instructors I have found an interesting correlation... communities where instructors for financial (or other valid reason) are pressured to focus on step-learning rather than fundamentals have a more difficult time to maintain a civil and hazard-free line of dance.  The opposite also seems to hold true....
A few months ago a very well known female instructor visited our community in one of her exercises she asked dancers to wonder aimlessly on the dance floor....
Her jaw drooped when she noticed that after a few bars the students naturally gravitated to the outside line of the dance floor maintaining a fairly even space distance among each other.  The event repeated every time she asked th dancers to break the 'code'.
Its simply a matter of training.. so if we are going to blame someone for a chaotic line of dance.. lets not blame the students but the so called 'instructors'.
Amaury
--- On Wed, 10/28/09, Tango22 <tango22 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Tango22 <tango22 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] Line of Dance
To: tango-L at mit.edu
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 4:01 PM

Trini wrote.....
What do traditionalists need to do to let attendees know that at their  
milongas, one adheres to a line of dance.....I've never had a problem  
like this.

Reminds me of an hilarious experience at a crowded milonga in the  
centre of Paris, where one imagines the quality of dance might be  
good, sensual; all things French. Perhaps it was called "The Bull  
Ring" or something similar - that should have tipped me off.   We were  
startled by a young couple, clearly demonstrating their exceptional  
prowess, dancing directly towards us in the clockwise direction.  When  
I politely pointed him in the right direction with my left hand,  
(perhaps he was directionally impaired) whilst making a smart  
avoidance move, he glared at me with the "don't you know who I am?"  
look.  I swear I heard someone shout Ole!! when I received a smart  
gancho in the behind.   It did not improve.  We left soon after, a  
little wiser and sadder; visions of Tango in Paris in tatters.
Keep smiling,
John


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