5145  Varieties of cruzada-leads, and "Gustavo for

Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:09:05 -0500
From: ceverett@ceverett.com
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Varieties of cruzada-leads, and "Gustavo for
beginners"
To: "Brian Dunn" <brian@danceoftheheart.com>, "'Tango-L'"
<tango-l@mit.edu>


On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:53:04 -0600, "Brian Dunn"
<brian@danceoftheheart.com> said:

>
> Incidentally, he had everyone START with an embrace that was intimate
> enough
> for the man's right hand to reach around and be underneath his partner's
> right arm...justified because, as he said, "we LIKE this situation! She
> knows I want to be with her! If I don't hold her like this, in this
> situation, maybe soon she doesn't want to be with ME!"
>
> So much for "Nuevo Tango" and "Open Embrace"... ;)

Indeed, though the most pretentious of the Nuevo people claim to have
left Gustavo behind. I think I hear the word "grandfather" used with
(dis)respect to him once at a private party in Buenos Aires. I found
it an extraordinary experience, given who it was coming from.

Christopher