Well put Charles in a perfect world we would maintain the LOD but in the US I’ve only seen it happen in perfect conditions and it only lasted a short time. I spend a lot of time watching and the one thing that seems to screw up the movement of the floor the most is the stopping for long periods of time for whatever reason. This seems to happen with all levels of dancers and you can only rock and sway for so long behind one of these idiots until you cannot stand it any longer and you break away to pass them. So it’s just like the idiot in the fast lane of the freeway going 55 mph holding up a long line of traffic forcing everyone to go around him increasing the risk of an accident. I can understand a rank tango beginner doing this but when someone who’s been dancing for years stops the movement of the LOD it baffles me. There can only be three reasons for this behavior:
Me me me (egocentric bias) = I’m an idiot and I’m proud of it. I’m #1 I’m #1 (dysfunctional competition) = Your village called their idiot is missing I’m an Idiot Savant with no talent = I’m just a moron. If you happen to fall into one of these three categories there's still hope. When you stop to do a turn or a pose keep it short let's say five seconds then continue moving along the LOD keeping up with the couple ahead of you. It's that simple it's not rocket science it's just dancing. And as a bonus you will be promoted from Idiot to "look at that guy he's dancing pretty good". _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
