[Tango-L] the fear of close embrace

[Jack Dylan]

In my experience, it's very difficult to find ... "traveling teachers who 
insistently teach solid, clean basics". That's because most {all?]
traveling teachers are also performers and they don't dance social 
tango.

And what's more basic than the embrace? I've been to Buenos Aires 
where pretty much all the ladies in the milongas drape their left arm 
around the man's shoulders. But In my community there's now an 
epidemic amongst the ladies to adopt an embrace where her left 
hand is in the middle of the man's back or even lower. They copy 
this from the traveling teachers.

But, surely, it needs 2 to make an embrace and now it feels like 
I'm embracing the lady but she's not embracing me. All the 'feeling' 
is gone.

Jack



----- Original Message ----
> From: Lois Donnay donnay at donnay.net

> Bring in 
> traveling teachers who insistently teach solid, clean basics!
>