[Tango-L] Tango-L Digest, Vol 126, Issue 4

[Ann Dobyns]

How lovely to read this and see the video of the dancers who inspired you. My partner started the same year. What incredible ride it has been!



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>   1. something magical, beautiful, sensual,    and elegant came alive
>      in front of my eyes (Dwain Edwards)
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> From: Dwain Edwards <stolenfire at fix.net>
> Subject: [Tango-L] something magical, beautiful, sensual,    and elegant
>    came alive in front of my eyes
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> Yes, like (perhaps) many of you, I'm getting tired of the worthless  
> spam and the cemetery quietude of this list-serve. Tango-L was at one  
> time a place where many thoughts and opinions (most of which I was in  
> disagreement - but whatever) were fired back and forth daily. Now....?
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> Anyway...it started like this:
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> I live in a small town on the central coast of California. I was doing  
> the on-line dating thing (I think Yahoo) and had a coffee shop first  
> date with S., a woman I met on-line. It was a good first date. I  
> enjoyed talking with her, and she mentioned that she liked dancing.  
> (That screech and thud you heard was my small expectations coming to a  
> halt and hitting the wall.) I didn't know how to dance, but did go to  
> contemporary/modern dance recitals. The only dancing I did was  
> partner(less) free-style, and usually, only if I had enough to drink.  
> But, I did enjoy talking with S. and decided a second date was in  
> order. (Move forward a week or so.) While perusing the local  
> independent (meaning free) paper, the New Times, I chanced upon a  
> small (two paragraphs) article on an upcoming weekend tango workshops,  
> which would be preceded on the Friday evening by a Chamuyo and  
> demonstrations by the tango instructors, followed by a milonga - and  
> it was FREE. I emailed S. and asked her if she would like to attend. I  
> told her I knew NOTHING about Argentine Tango, but that some  
> instructors from Argentina would be talking about Argentine Tango and  
> be giving a demonstration (and it was free - which I didn't mention -  
> obviously). She thought it may be fun, having never danced the tango,  
> but had be taking West Coast Swing lessons. And thus my fate was sealed.
> 
> That Friday night, I didn't understand most of what they were talking  
> about - both the guest instructors and tango community dancers, but  
> when the guest dancers took to the small dance floor...something  
> magical, beautiful, sensual, and elegant came alive in front of my  
> eyes, and in my heart, and in my soul. Never (outside of a dance  
> recital) could I imagine, two people, dancing together, as one, in a  
> social setting. I knew then, I would learn this extraordinary  
> dance...and I can say "learn this", rather than, "try to learn this",  
> because I quite realistically gave myself 10 years to learn. This was  
> October 29, 2004...and I will admit that it took a large part of those  
> 10 years reach a level of competency that makes the dance pleasurable  
> for my partner.
> 
> So now it's been 14 years. Although S. and I parted ways after the  
> next date, I've always been grateful that she was interested in dance.  
> And as for those instructors: this is them on a much larger dance  
> floor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0oyWqOTU04
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