[Tango-L] floor craft -2

[Mario]

If one enters the dance floor with assurance and  poise, you will not collide or 
attract collisions. Part of this attitude  is one’s confident stance and correct 
embrace. It acts as an energy  field and as a protective defence mechanism, the 
man’s well-placed  elbows also providing a strong physical barrier and 
deterrent. When the  man (leader) is looking forward, it is his partner’s duty 
to watch what  is happening behind them. She must have her head positioned so 
that she  can see either side of the man’s. If the man is directing them 
backwards  in such a way that they might collide with the couple behind, she  
should signal her partner with pressure of her hand on his back. If,  however, 
they are stationary and the couple behind is advancing in such a  way that a 
collision is likely, the women has the right to extend her  hand to the rear to 
physically stop them making bodily contact. Couples  must follow the line of 
dance around the outside of the floor. It is not  permitted to overtake another 
couple on the inside. It happens now and  again that one couple is slow or 
having problems with the dance and can  hold up the line of dancers behind them. 
It is the responsibility of the  leader of the slow couple to be sensitive to 
the situation and enter  into the centre of the dance floor, thus providing a 
gap in the line of  dance. The couple behind is now permitted to overtake the 
previous  couple by continuing on the outside line of dance. However, it can  
happen that the slow couple’s leader is insensitive to the situation and  does 
not make way for those behind. What is the leader of the couple  behind to do, 
as he cannot touch him or tell him vocally to move out of  the way? Javier’s 
suggestion is for him to click his fingers – rather  like using your car horn in 
traffic! 

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