I think it is fairly common in tango communities to see some men and some women grab beginners to dance with them. In some cases, those doing the grabbing may be among the less popular dancers in their own group who are taking advantage of newcomers. In other cases, people are trying out the beginners to see whether they have the aptitude (a basic set of movement/music/balance skills) to make it worth investing the time. Those lacking the aptitude are quickly dropped.
Newcomers may be preferred to those long-time members of the community who have long demonstrated a lack of compatibilty in dancingl. Without dancing with someone, it may be difficult to actually know how comfortable it is to dance with someone. You can only see how they look. With best regards, Steve _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
