2401  Golf as a metaphor for Tango (1)
Not as off-topic as it might seem. From the Wall Street Journal: "The first tee is a magical place on the opening morning of a new season. Dew on the fairway ahead glistens in the sun's first rays....

2402  Why I like the milonguero style - but not a related style (3)
Okay, I ve got an embrace question for you: I usually dance medium close both leading and following with some contact between the front of me and the front of my partner, but not strong pressure.

2403  very close embrace (1)
So your partner won't let you lead ochos etc? So don't lead them. As has been said before on this list, it is the "follower" who leads. I have had many partners who won't let me step outside them,...

2404  style and technique - Marisa's Q. (2)
Heyo Marisa and Friends, Yesterday Marisa wrote: style of dance where she achieves very firm contact with you from shoulder to hip she is just glued to your front. << and... else s chest, belly,...

2405  What individuals likes (1)
One thing I do in my classes is to have students take a few minutes and write down why they came to tango and/or what they want to get out of tango. Sometimes they have a clear view and sometimes it...

2406  "Blah" tangos - why do people play them? (12)
Tango Colorado has conducted a survey of good DJing practices. While most of the results of the survey make perfect sense (I have pasted recommendations below), one of the most important recommendations...

2407  Orlando Paiva & Mariana Melling at USTC Tango Fantasy - Miami Beach, FL (2)
Dear Milongueros y Tangueras: We have just added another couple of Tango Professors to our spectacular professional teaching faculty. Orlando Paiva and Mariana Melling will be teaching from Thursday,...

2408  Tango in Little Rock (1)
I will be in Little Rock, AR Thursday April 29 thru Sat. May 1. Where can I dance? thanks Susan

2409  Dancing tandas (2)
Marisa, Your observations are consistent with mine. A (male) friend who'd just returned to the US from a period in BA told me that the milongas didn't seem 'exciting' to him they way they had in BA....

2410  Ultimo Tango in "Traveler" (1)
The May 2004 issue of Conde Nast's "Traveler" magazine has a nice spread of photos and fashions and many young tango dancers in BsAs. They have used some familiar venues and also some that are unknown...

2411  Role switching (1)
Regarding role switching in dance, here's an interesting true story. In Argentina, an instructor once divided a class into two groups: one for the men and one for the ladies. But a man joined the ladies...

2412  Breaking Tradition. (10)
Just wondering what people thought about either of these ideas: A once/night Sadies Hawkin song where women would ask men to dance instead of sticking to the Argentinian Tradition? Wuld any of the women... Mr. Coleman...

2413  Strong women (2)
And Another Thing!! (caution - rant mode enabled) Ladies, if there are men who don't dance with you because you are a strong woman, with your own opinions and demands - so what?? You're not missing anything....

2414  invitations to dance... (6)
Hello List, I think women worldwide should invite men to do anything and everything, including dance. Not doing so may result in many lost adventures and opportunities. :) Regards, Sarah NYC

2415  TIPS ON HOW TO GET DANCES!! (1)
I have to respond to some of the comments that I have read recently regarding some of the ways women"aggressively ask" men to dance which results in the avoidance of dance by the latter. WOMEN... we...

2416  Women saying 'No'/Lame excuses (13)
Something related to the current thread is what a man does after a woman tells him 'No' to a dance, in one way or another. Usual lame excuses: 1. I'm resting. 2. I don't feel very well. 3. Next week.

2417  Breaking Tradition (would men be "polite") (1)
Astrid said: Women sometimes ask me to dance (that is, women who are strangers or with whom I don't frequently dance). I virtually always accept. Usually these women ask at most 2 times a Milonga, which...

2418  recent comments... (1)
Friends, (including A. and L.!) Astrid writes: "I have never been forced to move backwards so much in time as when I took on Argentine tango, and had to play "the woman's part"' Lois writes: "Ladies,...

2419  Women saying no, lame excuses, suicide and tango. (1)
We dance tango for different reasons. Most of us agree that for this activity to be worth it has to enclose certain elements: There is concentration in the music and in each other, there is a physical

2420  please unsubscribe from list (7)
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2421  Tango as antidote to suicide (2)
Dear list, Two things occur to me when looking at the interesting page about suicide linked below: If your answer was correct then how do you explain this: https://www.aneki.com/suicide.html Many of...

2422  My favorite rejection story (2)
My favorite rejection story goes back several years. I was at one of those week long tango festivals (boot camp as I call it). After a few days everyone is so weary. My girlfriend O was at the milonga...

2423  My favorite conditioned aceptance story (1)
Dear friends from tango list I remember now something that happened to my friend Anibal and myself when we went to milonga La Viruta in Buenos Aires. I watch Anibal rose from our table, gentle approach...

2424  dancing up and down the skill scale - was Rejection (1)
wrote: I hate to disagree with this one point of Sergio's, as I was otherwise in perfect agreement with him about taking the acceptance and rejection of invitations to dance calmly and pleasantly, peacefully...

2425  First electronic symposium El tango, Buenos Aires y el Mundo [The Tango, Buenos Aires and the World]. (1)
Dear Tango lovers: Having taught tango dance around the world along 20 years, we, Rodolfo and Gloria Dinzel, realized that many dancers would like to know more = about our culture, origins and present,...