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

[Gordon Erlebacher]

For the man to perfect those few steps, as you say, Mario, requires either 3-4 years minimum, or a lifetime of perfecting them on your own. The Milongueros you talk about have been dancing for decades. Do you have that kind of time to perfect the dance? If not, then 3-4 years of basics and fundamentals are required to achieve a similar objective. I have seen it done. 

   Gordon


----- Original Message -----
From: Mario <sopelote at yahoo.com>
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011 12:41 pm
Subject: [Tango-L] How can one attract more male dancers onto the dance	floor?
To: TANGO-L <tango-l at mit.edu>

> 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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