--- Lois Donnay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ladies, when you pick
teachers or listen to your
leaders, do you take into consideration whether they can
follow?
No, not even if the comment regards women's technique.
However, I have always compared their comments to those of
women whose dancing I
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:58:49 -0400, Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Really? And which milongas in BsAs accept switching roles?
I can only recall La Marshall - and that's because it's a gay milonga.
Try the tourist milongas.
I've seen a gay gouple dancing at the Ideal. The follower in
Sometimes near the end of the milonga (Buenos Aires), Ruben and I exchange
roles without stopping while dancing, and then switch back. We only go to
conservative milongas and everyone knows us, but still, sometimes people look
at us
in shock.
Cherie
http://tangocherie.blogspot.com/
I've seen Tete often switching leads with his followers (as below) at
some of the major milongas .
I've occassionally seen women leading women, even tho it is frowned
upon, at the end of milongas ... (seems to me the reaction also
depended on how good the woman leader was !!!)
Ilene
[EMAIL
12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Switching roles
Really? And which milongas in BsAs accept switching roles? I can only
recall
La Marshall - and that's because it's a gay milonga.
Keith, HK
On Tue Sep 11 23:42 , Lois Donnay sent:
After my Following for Leaders class last night, the men sat
-L tango-l@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Switching roles
Although the milongas in BsAs are called gay milongas, the majority of
people who go there are not gay. They are mostly young, they are all kinds
of people, foreigners and porteno's, and women are just as likely to lead
men as men lead
-- Original message --
From: Lois Donnay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After my Following for Leaders class last night, the men sat around talking.
One question came up. We know there are milongas in Buenos Aires where
switching roles is acceptable. Are there any other
Hi everyone.
I forgot the Spanish words for 'leader' and 'follower'. What are they again?
Neil
On 9/11/07, Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Really? And which milongas in BsAs accept switching roles? I can only
recall
La Marshall - and that's because it's a gay milonga.
Keith, HK
On Tue
Last time I checked it was hombre and mujer or el rol masculino and el
rol feminino.
However, the verb for lead is usually marcar (mark) or llevar (take).
Literally translated that would be something like: 'the leader marks the
step,' or 'the man takes the woman to the cross.' The verb for
