Re: [TANGO-L] Perfect Apilado Position

[Derik Rawson <rawsonweb@YAHOO.COM>]

Dear Deby and Dani:

Deby, I agree with you 100 percent on everything you
are saying. Thank you.

It would be nice if the many self appointed "tango
teachers" on this E-mail list, actually knew how to
dance Argentine Tango and understood the Argentine
culture.  Life would be much easier for all of us.

Derik
(recent winner of the Dani Iannarelli "cocoanut
award'..lol )
d.rawson@rawsonweb.com

--- Dani Iannarelli <dani@TANGO-LA-DOLCE-VITA.COM>
wrote:

> Hear, Hear, Deby!
>   Excellent!
>
>   You've said everything exactly as I've felt, which
> is why I often cut down a lot of these senseless
> analyses with some humour. I can't be bothered with
> all this 'that foot should be precisely there, while
> this hand should be at 61.5 degrees in relation to
> that toe etc etc etc. What a load of bull.
>
> Enjoy the dance. Do it the way you see fit. What's
> right for you is best for you.
>
>   I still prefer the missionary position, though. .
> . >:-)))))
>
>   Regards
>
>   Dani
>
>
> Deby Novitz <dnovitz@LAVIDACONDEBY.COM> wrote:
>   OK I almost never email this forum. So here is my
> two cents. Please
> don4't flame, because really I don't care if you
> agree or disagree with
> me. I used to live in San Francisco. After 18 trips
> to BA in 4 years I
> decided to move here permanently. I have lived here
> for over a year. It
> doesn't make me better or worse than anyone else on
> this forum. It just
> means I live here. I echo Barbara Garvey, why do you
> guys have to
> dissect every move in this dance? Relax and just
> enjoy. Tango is a
> social dance, not a scientific experiment or a
> computer program. It is
> a dance of the heart, not the brain. When people
> here ask me if I
> teach, I tell them, no, I dance for my heart. That
> is enough. People
> know what I mean.
>
> For those of you in suspense - we don't talk about
> close/apilado blah
> blah blah. Here you either dance the way the
> argentines dance or you
> dance the way the foreigners dance. (open I suppose)
> Where your cheek
> goes is personal preference. How the woman wraps her
> arm is her choice.
> There are no rules, period. As for balance and axis,
> you maintain
> your own, leader or follower. If you don4t have
> balance you are heavy
> and difficult to dance with. If you are "leaning
> against" the other
> person for your balance you make it very difficult
> to enjoy the dance.
> A woman who leans against the man is hard to move.
> Men usually use
> their hand. (Marca con el mano is a BIG no no) It is
> uncomfortable.
> Women either break the man's neck, men blow away our
> shoulders. So much
> better when you maintain your own sense and come
> together with someone else.
>
> The so called lean you talk about actually comes
> from your posture,
> balance, and axis. I control how much or little I
> lean by who I am
> dancing with and the music that is playing. I
> probably cannot explain
> this as well as needed, but the nicest thing a man
> can say to a woman is
> "tu abrazo es muy dulce." The embrace is just that -
> an embrace. You
> dont fall all over someone when you hug them, the
> same is true in tango.
>
> OK nuf said. Besos from Buenos Aires...and just go
> dance. It's more fun.
>
>
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