[Tango-L] The Tango Invitation or simply a lead

[sherpal1@aol.com]

our bodies react with this split second response system in many 
scenarios: just note how fast the fight or flight response system 
operates reacting to a menacing situation.  In tango, the invitation is 
the notion of a suggestion, of the creating of space, a vacuum, where 
the woman, if properly trained, will move or flow into.  I think it is 
talked about this way to draw a distinction between inviting versus 
pushing, shoving or pulling a woman into a direction.  It is a sort of 
stimulus/response  dialogue where ,when two bodies are well-trained, 
the illusion is that it is almost simultaneous.  It is also that notion 
embraced by Gavito...that the man leads the woman away from the postion 
he next wants to occupy.  When first learning tango, as in learning a 
foreign language, the movements seem slow and disconnected, but with 
time,practice and training, the links and connections appear to create 
flow....sherrie


-----Original Message-----
From: Anton Stanley <anton at alidas.com.au>
To: Tango-L at mit.edu
Sent: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 7:07 pm
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] The Tango Invitation or simply a lead


I'm familiar with kinaesthesia. But I don't think it's applicable to
explaining the concept of "invitation & acceptance" in the parlance of
tango. Sub-conscious agreements is not I believe what is being alluded 
to in
describing the lead & follow roles of the dance. If it is, it's not 
really
relevant in a tutorial sense, as it's an unconscious response, and I
believe, requires deep seated imprinting to be reliably reproduced.

Anton


-----Original Message-----
 From: chrisjj2 at gmail.com [mailto:chrisjj2 at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chris 
John
Jordan
Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2011 9:45 AM
To: anton at alidas.com.au
Cc: Tango-L; chrisjj
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] The Tango Invitation or simply a lead

Anton

> Can it really be true that the inviter invites his partner to take a 
step
or
> make a movement, waits while the invitee considers the request, then 
waits
> for the invitee to begin to execute the request and follows invitee 
to the
> successful or not, conclusion of the invitation. The decision making
> component of this process is supposed to happen within a few 
milliseconds.

It is certainly true, except there's no consider or decision. The
process is autonomic, unconscious. It happens through the kinesthetic
coupling of the embrace.

> Yet many of us would have difficulty choosing which bread to take off 
the
supermarket
> shelves within the same timeframe.

Because that's done with a different kind of process - conscious 
thought.

Chris.(www.chrisjj.com)


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