[Tango-L] something magical, beautiful, sensual, and elegant came alive in front of my eyes

[Steve Littler]

Super great Dwain! Loved the story and the great video! Are you on 
Facebook? I might have to Friend you! LOL! :-)

Abrazos! ~ El Stevito de Gainesville

On 6/7/18 12:17 AM, Dwain Edwards wrote:
> 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....?
>
> Anyway...it started like this:
>
> 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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