Sure: When your body ages and you must dance in tight spaces, you have to give up a large amount of whatever repertoire you had when you were young, and had much more space to dance in.
Sorry for being obtuse. Christopher On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:47:07 -0500, "michael doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Christopher, > > Could you elaborate on your second paragraph below? I do not think I > understand completely what you are getting at. > > Michael > > > > > > > Message: 13 > > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:03:28 -0500 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] what makes milonguero, milonguero > > > > In other words: > > > > Draw a circle and label it "Salon", then draw a smaller circle > > inside that, label that as "Close Embrace", then inside the > > second circle draw a third you can finally label "Milonguero". > > > > The Milonguero Circle is the set of limitations imposed by > > accelerating decrepitude and dancing in tight quarters in > > BA over the last 20 or so years. Of course, there is the > > additional set of circumstances that most new "Milonguero" > > dancers ape the styles of the lucky few dancers that found > > a style many of their partners enjoy or ended up in a movie. > > > > For those of us with a bit more space and athletic ability > > (mostly balance), we have more possibilities, and we should > > use them to develop our own styles, inside the limitations > > that the social norms of tango impose, of course. > > > > Christopher > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
