[Tango-L] floor craft -2

[Sandhill Crane]

--- On Thu, 10/7/10, Tom Stermitz <stermitz at tango.org> wrote:

> There is the problem that so many leaders do not
> dance up near the edge of the dance floor.

A phenomenon that I've observed at festivals in the US
(saw it just this last weekend in Portland) is that a
solid line forms at the edge of the floor, and the
rest of the floor is more sparsely filled. 
I guess this is the result of people piling onto the
floor at the edge, but also that people are staying at
the edge and not filling up the floor.

In that situation, I find the going easiest just inside
the ring around the edge, except for dodging the guys
who are flitting back and forth from the edge toward
the center. Hey, nobody's using that space, right?