In my brief tango experience, I have already seen the obvious difference
betweeen an 'instructor' and a 'teacher.' Most of us begin with instructors
and, when we determine that we have a deep enough level of commitment, we seek
out a true teacher.
Instructors serve a useful and necessary function for tango. It takes a very
large number of people entering into the subculture of tango in order to
provide the small percentage of people who move up the skill and proficiency
scale. Instructors are extremely important for helping to bring in the large
numbers required at that entry level and to help those people determine their
own sense of committment and seek out the level of participation that is
attractive to them.
Instructors are important TO the dance, but are not teachers OF the dance. They
are two distinctly separate skill sets.
Will
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