[Tango-L] Men's strategies

[Michael]

Hello Sherie:
BA milongas are not like US milongas so I'll stick to BA now.
1) Don't look like a foreigner. Argentines dance in their street shoes. A
man changing his shoes at his table is a give away that he is a foreigner.

2) Dress nicely and don't look like a slob. Nicely is defined as tuck your
shirt in and don't wear dungarees, especially if they are worn and torn.

3) Be patient. Observe the milonga and the social dynamics for the first
hour. Notice that everybody clears the floor during the cortina and women
aren't asked to dance before the music of the next tanda begins. Notice the
simple vocabulary.

4) Understand cabeceo before you arrive at the milonga. Find the woman you
want to dance with and look at her WITH A SMILE on your face. Nobody wants
to dance with a grumpy person.

 5) Know some Spanish because couples don't immediately start dancing when
the next tango in the tanda begins. Your partner will say something. Be
prepared.

Michael
I danced with the Argentines- - in Argentina



On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:51 PM, <sherpal1 at aol.com> wrote:

> When men visit a community outside of their home base, or when they go to
> dance in BsAs, what strategies do you use to get women to return your
> cabaceo and start dancing with you?  What do you do to get that first dance
> that gives other women an idea of what kind of dancer you are?   How do you
> get your dancing ball rolling?  Sherrie
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