Re: [TANGO-L] deepening tango

[Jonathan Thornton <obscurebardo @gmail.com>]

On 7/20/05, ramiro garcia <ramiro9  @yahoo.com> wrote:

> But this was like...being an immigrant, and running into >someone who is also from your home country, and suddenly >being able to yak it up in your long-unused, native tongue.

Ramiro,

Well put! I know this experience of feeling like you've met someone
from home who speaks your language. I think of it as "deep rapport".
Sadly, I don't think it can be taught. It's something very fundamental
to the way we experience the world.  It feels like it's in the marrow
of my bones and flowing in my deepest arteries.

Foot play is not my native language nor does it appeal to me though
through practise I might improve at it but I know my native non verbal
language and when I meet the rare partner who also speaks it
"natively" , who is from "there" also, then we meet there, often in
the first dance, and it has something of the quality of a home coming,
a return.

Deep rapport has for me that quality of recognition that this other
shares something deeply fundamental about feeling and being and moving
in the world. And when I find this familiarity I too want to linger
and luxuriate with the person I feel so at home with.

Jonathan Thornton


-- 
"The tango can be debated, and we have debates over it, 
but it still encloses, as does all that which is truthful, a secret."  
Jorge Luis Borges