Re: [TANGO-L] Tango, a dance of seduction or longing?

[Tanguero Chino <tanguerochino @NETSCAPE.NET>]

Erika Hilliard wrote:

>Tango, a dance of seduction or longing?

(I thought I was going to write about something else, but my mind tricked me and I found that I am continuing on my previous posting.)

This is a second hand story, but I thinks it further illustras Erika's point.

A few of us were talking about the seduction game after a milonga.  One lady mentioned a conversation she had with a few single men some years ago.  The group had had a few years of experience dancing tango.

She was wondering why none of the men had had any relationship with the ladies.  One of the replies went something like "I do not want to compromise the feeling that I get when I am dancing."

Tango above all, is about connection, about feeling.  It is more about the invisible than the visible.  The embrace, the physical connection, is but part of the ritual.  Like the lotus position for meditation, it is one step towards relaxing the mind.  The physical closeness between the two persons makes it easier for them to open up to each other.  This has to happen before any invisible connection can take place, before any feeling can be shared.

Tango is a seduction, but it is a seduction of the mind, not the body.  Physical love may happen, but that's a consequence of the mental connection.  The pursue of physical love causes too much pressure and stress to both partners.  A person seeking physical love will be under pressure the entire time that he or she is at the milonga, whereas the pursue of tango connectness ends in three minutes, or the duration of a tanda at the most.  Water finds the path of least resistance.  Need I say more? ;-)

Invisible connections to all

Tanguero Chino




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