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From: tango-l-boun...@mit.edu [mailto:tango-l-boun...@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Shahrukh Merchant
Sent: Monday, 20 September 2010 11:19 p.m.
To: tango-l@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] the fear of close embrace
meaning of life kushi_bu...@hotmail.com asks:
have you all ever
dance well in open-embrace. It doesn't mean
that there's a fear of close embrace. Even if it does, so what? Let them
dance open.
Trini de Pittsburgh
--- On Tue, 9/21/10, Jeff j...@jqhome.net wrote:
From: Jeff j...@jqhome.net
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] the fear of close embrace
To: tango-l
I don't know where you guys live that you see only performance teachers.
Basics are plentiful here in NYC. Just this month we have Maria
Olivera Gustavo Saba, Maxi Gluzman. Melina and Detlef pass through
now and then, how basic can you get hehe. We have Robin Thomas who
travels, and many others
Here in Mexico, a second grade school teacher was telling me about her day in
class, today.
One of her observations of her new class is that she cannot hug the six
children from the USA goodbye
because they act like she is infecting them and they even run away, whereas
the Mexican
On 09/17/2010 08:38 AM, macfro...@aol.com wrote:
The tango embrace is the same as the embrace of someone you love, even
though you may not know or care about the person. It is the dance
position. In my experience as a tango dancer and teacher, many
foreign dancers, especially those from
I would agree this is very correct. I would also add that in addition
to the possibility of emotional fear that beginners may have, there is
also the fear of getting stepped on by the man or stepping on the man by
the beginner who is untrained in Close Embrace. Trained leaders who
respect
On 9/20/2010 1:53 AM, Jack Dylan wrote:
I've been to Buenos Aires
where pretty much all the ladies in the milongas drape their left arm
around the man's shoulders.
Same for me. For social dancing, this where I prefer the ladies left arm:
Yes but would they rather be dancing with their own age group or not?
My experience is that the men have more of an issue with this than the
women: they prefer to dance and socialize with their own age group.
Vince
In Melbourne
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You should come to Buenos Aires and
In response to my statement:
You should come to Buenos Aires and watch the glow on the faces of the
younger females who just got invited to dance by one of the old men
milongueros ...
Vince Bagusauskas wrote:
Yes but would they rather be dancing with their own age group or not?
Who? The
In my experience, it's very difficult to find ... traveling teachers who
insistently teach solid, clean basics. That's because most {all?]
traveling teachers are also performers and they don't dance social
tango.
And what's more basic than the embrace? I've been to Buenos Aires
where pretty
Well, if I don't remove my glasses I'll be crashing with everybody, my sight
is that bad.
And most ladies (at least 20 cm shorter than me) didn't have a problem at
all with my hat.
Sergey
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I would think wearing a hat would cause one to unconsciously tighten the
muscles in the neck, which would inhibit the spiraling of the spine. It's a
subtle but important thing.
Trini
--- On Fri, 9/17/10, Sergey Kazachenko
What's going on here? I don't understand. Why are people with boundary
issues, or those who want to perform or compete, dancing Argentine tango
anyway? Aren't there other dances they would prefer? Didn't they find out
that tango was not for them at the first lesson?
I think much of the blame
I believe the term close embrace as it relates to tango was coined by a
native English speaker to distinguish it from the hold of ballroom. An
embrace is an embrace. Do you embrace someone at arm's length in normal life?
The tango embrace is the same as the embrace of someone you love,
-l tango-l@mit.edu
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] the fear of close embrace
Your shampoo not working for you? Try Pantene. :o
I would think wearing a hat would cause one to unconsciously tighten the
muscles in the neck, which would inhibit the spiraling
: Trini y Sean (PATangoS) patan...@yahoo.com
To: tango-l tango-l@mit.edu
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] the fear of close embrace
Your shampoo not working for you? Try Pantene. :o
I would think wearing a hat would cause one to unconsciously tighten the
muscles
This reminds me of the time I (as the milonga organizer) had to tell a man
to stop teaching on the floor. He was respectful to me and said No
problem - it stops right now That was nice. (Other times men have blamed
me and never returned to the milonga.)
Then he went right over to my
Coincedently, this morning I came to the conclusion that it was the fear of the
close embrace
that was keeping the women in my town gaah gaah over fancy stage steps and
avoiding the close embrace
dancethis is after some months of observing classes and social dances...at
first, I couldnt
have you all ever considered that some people enjoy dancing a more open
embrace? enjoy seeing each others faces as they dance? enjoy sliding their
bodies past each other? enjoy the larger figures? enjoy the more dramatic dance
permited by a more open embrace? enjoy the athletiscm that a more
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From: meaning of life kushi_bu...@hotmail.com
have you all ever considered that some people enjoy dancing a more open
embrace? enjoy seeing each others faces as they dance? enjoy sliding their
bodies past each other? enjoy the larger figures? enjoy the more
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From: meaning of life kushi_bu...@hotmail.com
have you ever considered that some people feel mauled and threatened
(especially good looking females) by the pack of wolves that descend on them
DEMANDING close embrace dances and belittling their hesitation to
On 16/09/2010 22:46, RonTango wrote:
[I can understand why you wanted to comment on the other
poster, who could be read to imply that *all* the qualities
he ascribed to open embrace somehow were inaccessible
to people with different styles, but I can't let the pendulum
swing entirely back to the
--- On Thu, 9/16/10, meaning of life kushi_bu...@hotmail.com wrote:
have you all ever considered that some people enjoy dancing
a more open embrace? enjoy seeing each others faces as they
dance? enjoy sliding their bodies past each other? enjoy the
larger figures? enjoy the more dramatic
--- On Thu, 9/16/10, Sergey Kazachenko syarz...@gmail.com wrote:
Nancy,
While I agree with most of your points, I have to ask - what is wrong with HATS?
Of course, I mean, when the height difference is large enough so that
the hat does not violate the closeness of the abrazo.
Sergey
May you
Two years ago, I met a woman at a ballroom and Latin dance weekend. She danced
very well but not Argentine Tango. We fell out of contact but recently reunited
by a mutual friend. She started tango lessons and had reservations about
dancing close embrace.
That's when it dawned on me that there
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