Re: teachng on the social dance floor and self confidence

[Carlos Lima <amilsolrac @YAHOO.COM>]

Nelson Fleet <roadraat @YAHOO.COM> posted to the venerable Tango-L
> Puh-lease. (...) KISS (...) <

thus graduating up from giving us his maestros's CV in installments, detailed
analyses of lead and follow for beginners, and arbitration of list content.
It behooves us to be patient with new comers: a little "youthful"
rebeliousness is perhaps a natural part of the initial enthusiasm that tango
so often generates. It is maybe even a good thing, who knows. I could gently
chide some of the veterans of the list for egging on, in this and other
cases, harmless nonsense that does not question any of the established
beliefs (or even knows about them). But I cannot. I was one of the first ones
to do it this time!

However, it is may be opportune to relate what I happened to learn yesterday.
A well known professional tanguera in this area had her foot BROKEN in a
milonga a couple of years back. Someone stepped hard on her. This is one more
of many serious injuries about which I found out over time, some of them
having required many months of recovery.

Of course we do not need to get to consequences of "real" Dance Sport
proportions to be strongly motivated to wipe out brutish / ignorant /
inconsiderate / anoying behaviour on the dancing floor. I do not care for
fake / condescending "sensitive"; but I certainly believe classical couple's
dancing should be, inter alia, a form of artistic expression, for which
gentle and genteel people of both sexes meet. Nelson may even prove to be one
of them over time. He is just angry at me ...

Cheers,

PS - Nelson, this will be easier for you to learn than leading, navigating,
or arguing in a rational manner. DO NOT include entire postings by other
people as attachments to your own. There is even a rule against it in the
materials you received from our long suffering list administrators.




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