[Tango-L] Line of Dance

[Huck Kennedy]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:05 AM, NANCY <ningle_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I danced with a gentleman who took seven ( count 'em) quick
> steps  backward, on a diagonal, into the center of the room
> without disturbing anyone.

    Without disturbing anyone?  I think you may have misspelled
"without bumping into anyone."  Who's to say that nobody was
distracted from their ongoing tango reverie and yanked back into the
real world by being forced to deal with this.

     Maybe he didn't do this in the middle of a tango, but rather just
did it at the very end of a milonga selection in order to achieve a
dramatic ending, in which case he might be much more easily forgiven
for the brief indiscretion?  After all, we're all entitled to the
occasional brief indiscretion.  :-)

     But this "skill" thing brings up another subject--I was chatting
with a woman who had danced the previous tanda with someone who had
been zigzagging around in and out of lanes and passing people at whim.
 When I expressed my displeasure with this, she said, "Well some
people are skilled enough to to that."   I replied, "Madame, this is a
good milonga, and most of the leaders on this floor are skilled enough
to do that--that's hardly the point.  The point is that most of us are
also polite enough not to treat our fellow dancers as mere inanimate
traffic cones."

Huck