Re: A Theme Night

[Ted Crowley <tcrowley @CISCO.COM>]

"Frank G. Williams" wrote:

> I know, that's easy to say when floors locally are rarely full...
> But if my tango skills include slick evasive counter-moves
> and the nerve to occasionally assert a claim for space, then I
> shouldn't blame others for not enjoying myself.
>
> My only rule of navigation:  Share and share alike.

Folks --

Some of my best tango moves started as "evasive counter-moves"
to avoid collision. I have a pet theory that virtually all tango steps
(other than created-for-teaching patterns, of course) had collision
avoidance as their origin, sometime in history

Last August's Denver weekend was so crowded (like many BsAs
milongas, some say) that Friday night's milonga had a lot of traffic
problems. So all the Saturday workshops changed their content
to focus entirely on dancing in that environment (staying in lane,
never ever passing, specific patterns) and the Saturday and Sunday
milongas were a distinct pleasure. In fact I found after returning home
that I now enjoy things much less on a more open floor, where people
around you expect you to move around the room faster. Just puttering
along at one mile per hour for whole songs was SO nice...

-- Ted

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