2637  How long more

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:25:34 +0000
From: Oleh Kovalchuke <oleh_k@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: How long more

There are two parts to the dance: 1. technical and 2. emotional (the
"deep-throated "!Amame!"" from the excellent article in Albuquerque Tribune
https://www.abqtrib.com/archives/diversions04/080604_diversions_tango.shtml).

The first part.
a) steps can be learned fairly quickly (months or in some cases as we have
learned less than a month)
b) doing steps with the music (musicality is rather technical in my opinion)
can be learned fairly quickly (months if you listen to the music every day
as a background)

The second, emotional part is much harder to learn. It is this part where
life-long learning of tango comes from. One has to be mature enough to not
be afraid to be vulnerable. One has to have enough depth (usually coming
from life experience) to have something to share. That s why when I taught
my daughter to tango I told her that she will need to wait at least
ten-fifteen more years until she can truly enjoy the dance (and even this I
was able to tell her because I know that she has the potential to
empathize).

If one has the second part in her/him, then learning the steps/musicality
can be relatively easy. Learning to express existing emotions via steps will
take a bit longer, but I think my initial estimates are about right (one
year for men, six months for women).

By the way all of the above applies to close embrace only; one cannot
"!Amame!" in open embrace.


Cheers, Oleh K.
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