Igor, I'm having difficulty understanding why you think men think tango is too feminine. Ballroom dancing (especially Latin, with it's rolling hips) - maybe - but tango, with it's assertive chest forward movements? Tango is even portrayed in advertising as being very masculine, with strong masculine Latin men as primary role models. I don't deny that some men in the US see social dancing as feminine, but in my eyes, except maybe for country & western dancing, I see tango as the most masculine of social dances danced in the US.
As far as recruiting men to tango, that is another issue. I understand that many (most?) tango communities in the US (even worldwide) have more women than men. In part this is the same trend that one sees in other social dances. However, to me the core reason there are more women than men is that tango is a difficult dance. So, in my opinion, the men who say they have dropped tango because it is too feminine are either lying or deceiving themselves. I think most of them dropped tango because it is too difficult. It takes 1-2 years to train a motivated man to look good on the milonga dance floor. (Let's not promote the 6 week miracles again here.) Most men seek instant gratification. Tango is too much work. Ron On 9/29/07, Igor Polk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was told that many men trying tango drop it because they think "tango is > too feminine". > > Some of my friends actually think that tango is very masculine, strong. > > I believe these men who dropped could be the best tango dancers and WE > NEED > GOOD MEN IN TANGO ! > > DESPERATELLY !!!! > > Please, help to find ways to uncover masculine part of tango to potential > great leaders ! > > > Igor Polk > PS I understand there is a theory that tango helps to discover feminine > part > in men and men's part in women. But that is not what I need. I need the > theory to present musucline attractiveness of tango to men. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
