[TANGO-L] Cabeceo

[Mark Rector <rmarkrector @YAHOO.COM>]

I continue to be surprised to learn that Americans are
resistant to and threatened by something as simple and
charming as the "cabeceo".

What could be more natural at a Milonga (and in life!)
than to be engaged with other people by making eye
contact?

What could be more gracious than expressing an
invitation to dance and accepting or declining through
the simple expedient of a look?

What could be more mortifying to a man than to cross a
crowded room to invite somebody to dance, only to be
turned down? What could be more embarassing to both
parties than to turn somebody down who had made that
trek?

What could be more brusque than a man walking up to a
woman and peremptorily extending his hand to her, as
if demanding a dance...often without even looking at
her at all?!

Are Americans resistant to the cabeceo because they
fear and misunderstand the "intimacy" of eye-contact?

Cheers! -Mark


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