Igor, Maybe your questions are not that well formulated as you think. I am not in a position to provide an advice on this matter, but will write some comments on your questions.
"But I am looking for advice how to make tango attractive for men who are looking for masculinity in Tango" This is far from clear question. What are these men who look for masculinity in Tango? When I first saw AT performance, I just said to myself - wow, this is beautiful, I wanna learn it. No masculinity or femininity questions in my mind. It was just natural to me. Do you mean the males who are not sure what they are? I don't think they'll find it in tango, but it may help somehow. And I don't think this is the type you need to attract. Or the ones, that think dancing is for women and for gays? Most of these are so sure of it, and so scared of dancing, that I doubt it you'll want to spend time convincing them, unless they are friends or relatives. The minority that have brains, will understand the simple argument that a dance in which "a man leads a woman" can't be a dance for gays. "As for ladies, I am deeply interested how to teach them be more feminine, find that feminine power in themselves dancing tango." This is far more interesting question. Ladies keep telling me that they are modern women, and are used to leading, not following. Yet, they follow, but badly. Precisely because they don't give the control over their body. They follow, but don't surrender control. And this screws up the very nature of the AT movements. I don't think anyone can convince them, until they see or feel the difference. How can one show them? I don't know - tried many times, some women will let you show them, but will be so scared, that will spoil the attempt. Sometimes they are calm enough, they surrender, the dance becomes far more natural and pleasing, but . . . they don't seem to appreciate it, sometimes they even don't notice any difference. So my conclusion - people are not uniform, some have talents, some not. You can't force one to understand something, until he/she is ready for it. Maybe it's the motivation - they don't see / feel / understand the beautiful results, so they are not motivated, and they don't utilize their feminine power. So, this is what I am interested in - how to make them (both genders) SEE / FEEL the beauty of "entrega". I saw (felt) it myself, nobody taught it to me. So I don't know how to teach it to others. If possible at all. Trying all the time by showing good examples on YouTube - no perceivable effect so far. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Polk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 12:17 PM Subject: [Tango-L] Help to find masculinity in tango! > Hm... > Really, for the first time I have posted a real life question which I have > to resolve, > > > and > .. I only got 3 dumb answers of those who did not even bother to think > what > I asked. > > > Well, thanks a lot.. > > Igor Polk > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
