Re: [TANGO-L] floor navigation

[jhon santana <newtotango @HOTMAIL.COM>]

Outside Argentina, like every were else, floor navigation and etiquette is
taught, and taught, and taught, over and over again.

Of course, I'm sure there are some really bad teachers out there.
I'm also sure, there are some really bad students.

But seems to me, that the dancers we are talking about here are not the
beginners, which have the excuse of being beginners (remember being so
nervous and focused on trying to get the God dam thing right)

The ones we are talking about are the perennial unconsidered Forever Tango
wanna bee's, that are only concerned with their own soon to be fame and
Tango glory. This kind, really don't like social Tango, what they like is to
show of.

Take a minute, when you are not dancing yourselves and put them to a very
simple test: Are they looking at the people outside the floor, trying to
catch attention from the onlookers? Trying pathetically to see who is
looking at them? The social dancer is concerned with his partner, and with
the dance floor, BECAUSE the focus is with his partner!

There is also a great disrespect for how Tango is supposed to be culturally.
Not the steps, close embrace, open embrace, etc. It is a gathering of folks,
with a common taste in music and the particular emotions that it raises, all
dancing TOGETHER!
These particular types don't even fathom how much they miss, and how much it
spoils it for the rest of us.

I hope they really succeed, so they go an a very, very long world tour, and
they leave the Milonga dance floor to the social Tango lover.

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