[Tango-L] How can one attract more male dancers onto the dance floor?

[Mario]

Frankly, with many teachers teaching step combinations, I often stand there
in the class, thinking:"Thank God, I am not a man. I would never be able to
remember all that." As a woman, as long as you have good technique, you can
leave almost all the memorising up to the man, and that's why so many women
"can do it", and the men cannot. Men not only have to learn their own steps,
but the leads as well.
..
 ..the above paragraph from a previous thread is my guess as to 'why' the 
problem.
 More 'complicated' means more and endless classes...it serves the 'teacher' 
well
 and most women too...because it seems to me that it is more the woman who
 is gaa-gaa to be taught more steps and patterns..  sorry ladies. ..and that is 
why
 there are more women in the advanced classes.  I believe I'm telling it like it 
is.

...the answer is to teach the social dance as something simple but with good 
fundamentals
 of posture, walk, balance, etc..  As we have seen in the social dance of 
traditional argentine tango,
 the average milonguero doesn't use more than a handfull of moves, he just makes 
those few better
 and better...if the guy was taught well for a dozen classes and turned loose 
with a limited but effective
 repretoir, he could too, go on to perfect his own dance... and get a lot of 
dancing done instead of classes.
  of course we are talking here of the traditional dance...when it comes to 
Nuevo, also THE favorite of the 

  ladies, it becomes a different dance altogether....  I have no suggestions for 
that dance.



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