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Re: [TANGO-L] How to teach rhythm? The Contrarian view - Can everything be learned?
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- Subject: Re: [TANGO-L] How to teach rhythm? The Contrarian view - Can everything be learned?
- From: Marisa Holmes <mariholmes @YAHOO.COM>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:15:24 -0700
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--- Lucia <curvasreales @YAHOO.COM.AR> wrote:
> I just decided that I want to climb the (in)famous
> K2 mountain in the Himalayas(real climb, not being
> dragged up by a guide). .
Right - but you know what? The person who insists on
trying to conquer a dangerous physical challenge that
they are not suited to is risking death - and a
competent teacher would try to dissuade them. The
person who is not a very good dancer, but wants to
keep trying is risking nothing more than frustration
and bumped toes. Maybe they will never dance on
stage. Maybe they will never even be a really good
social dancer. But they may enjoy themselves trying
to learn; they may be a pleasant or a useful person to
have in their dance community; they may have good days
when dancing is a pleasure for them and their
partners; they may turn into the good-natured reliable
guy who will always ask the visiting lady to dance and
carry her safely (if not ecstatically) around the
floor.
It's only dancing. I understand that for some dancers
it is the most important thing in the world and they
just can't bear it if their own dancing is not sublime
- if they don't get to dance that perfect dance with
that perfect partner - if they have to actually see
people on their dance floors who are not beautiful and
talented. But people who feel that way really need to
get a grip on the idea that, although their feelings
are true for them, most of the rest of us are a lot
calmer, a lot more forgiving of our own and other
people's struggles, and a lot easier to get along
with.
Dance is a human expression of feeling and thought -
and partner dance is a complex communication between
two people. At its best it is exquisite, at its worst
it's pretty painful to watch or to do. But in between
there is a tremendously wide range of abilities and
experiences, most of them pleasurable in some degree
- and it is not up to some obsessive snob to say that
if I cannot dance perfectly I should give it up or not
try at all. I am not a trained orator, but I speak.
I am not a professional journalist, but I write. I am
not and never will be a perfect dancer, but I will
dance if I want to!
Marisa
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