2745  Bumping on the dancefloor

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 06:35:55 -0500
From: Lois Donnay <donnay@DONNAY.NET>
Subject: Bumping on the dancefloor

There are two people here who complain the most about lack of floorcraft.
They are among the worst offenders, and of course, both complain bitterly
about the other. One, a teacher, holds seminars about floorcraft regularly,
and has gone up to new people and told them he noticed their mistakes in
floorcraft and wrote them down for them. He tells the other teacher that
they need to emphasize floorcraft more in their lessons.

How bad is he? Women ask their leaders not to dance close to him. At a tango
weekend, strangers came up and warned me about him, not knowing that I knew
him. However, the time he boleo'd me really badly, he DID give me flowers
the next day. He's a bit of a character, and more showy than the community
would like, but he is passionate about tango. Maybe too passionate - when
he's dancing, he's so into his own dance that he's just lost.

The lesson here is - before you complain about someone else's behavior or
faults, look at yourself. In tango, as in life.

Lois Donnay
Minneapolis, MN

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Centella [mailto:tangotiger888@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:57 PM
> To: TANGO-L@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [TANGO-L] Tango Styles
>
> We are at the milongas every week, it would be extremely
> unusual that anybody ''touches" you as you dance, except for
> some foreign tourists. They obviously do not know how to
> navigate the floor and start bumping into everybody, then
> they leave the floor saying that "everybody kicks me". :))
> Naturally from their perspective it must feel that way.