"robin tara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I've even seen it happen in classes where women are asked > to rotate. They don't seem to notice that some women have been > standing and waiting for their turn to dance and when the time comes > for a rotation, one sees the same women dancing and the same women > standing.
I used the following technique (as teacher, and the teacher really does need to take some responsibility for proper rotation) that I thought worked quite well for classes with a significant imbalance of men and women: I would explain that, owing to the large imbalance, the algorithm for a partner change was that when I would announce one, the group standing out (men or women as the case may be) would first get onto the dance floor and find a partner from any of those on the floor, and THEN the others would change partners. This at least guaranteed that (a) no one would be standing out two rotations in a row and (b) that those who were timid or didn't like being aggressive in finding a partner, or whatever, weren't being penalized by being left out always. And those who really wanted to practice mostly with their selected partner could do so at least every 2-3 partner changes. Works better with frequent partner changes. In practice, the group might need a reminder once more during the class and the really timid may need to be encouraged not to dilly-dally when a partner change was announced, but in general it worked well. (This of course doesn't address the much more complex issue of Milongas, which is what the thread was originally about.) Shahrukh _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
