[Tango-L] "how can one attract more male dancers on the dancefloor?"

[Michael]

Larry:
IMHO, what you describe is universal in the United States. There are no codes in the States as in Buenos Aires. Sometimes, it looks like men swoop in like hawks or eagles looking for prey. I remember the first year I went to the Atlanta Tango Festival. I thought I'd use cabeceo. I used it - - and nobody else did so I lost out. The following years, I had to be more assertive.

Dancers go to dance so they dance with the first person they see or asks them. When I started, I thought "I have to get all the dancing I can so I can improve." Instead I picked up a lot of bad habits. As long as dancers value quantity over quality, the problem will persist.

Michael
I danced Argentine Tango --with the Argentines

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Larry Richelli 


  >I would like to talk about a subject that >might be relevant to any Dancing community in general, any Tango >community in particular: "how can one attract more male dancers on the >dance floor?"

  One only need to study the tango community in San Diego. There are more men then woman at almost any milonga. It is hard for me because I like to hear the music before I pick a dance partner and one cannot do this in San Diego. If you don't have a partner by the first note of the music, you don't get a dance that tanda. I have not been able to figure this phenomena out, but it is one of the only places I have seen this, so there is something different going on there!