[Tango-L] Rate of movement on crowded floors

[Tom Stermitz]

What is your experience, Trini?

I think some people's frustration with navigational issues (i.e. road  
rage) becomes painted as a universal truth, when it is mainly their  
personal complaint or personal difficulty with dancing small and  
musically. To be fair, until you gain experience with crowded  
conditions you feel cramped rather than comfortable.

In my experience, in BOTH the US and Buenos Aires when it gets  
crowded, the line of dance doesn't progress very quickly. When it gets  
super crowded things slow to a crawl, but again that happens in both  
places.

The bigger difference is when the dance floor is not so crowded. In  
the US, leaders sometimes race around athletically. Leaders who aren't  
racing frantically, still tend to travel fairly quickly around the  
floor with very few chewy pauses or slow-movements. In Buenos Aires,  
the leaders choose a more paced interpretation of the music.

On Feb 9, 2010, at 7:38 AM, Trini y Sean (PATangoS) wrote:

> Hola listeros!
> ...
> I've heard from a couple of people that there's a big difference in  
> the speed at which people travel on the dance floors in BsAs versus  
> the crowded festivals in the U.S.  Basically, in the U.S., the LOD  
> slows to a crawl.  In BsAs, however, the LOD continues at its usual  
> pace, even if it's heavily packed.  One reason why this is that in  
> the U.S. leaders tend to wait for the person ahead of them to move  
> before they go into the space.  In BsAs, people just dance along.   
> One leader described it as being pulled along.
> ...
> Trini de Snowburgh
>

Tom Stermitz
http://www.tango.org
Denver, CO 80207