Super great Dwain! Loved the story and the great video! Are you on Facebook? I might have to Friend you! LOL! :-)
Abrazos! ~ El Stevito de Gainesville On 6/7/18 12:17 AM, Dwain Edwards wrote: > Yes, like (perhaps) many of you, I'm getting tired of the worthless > spam and the cemetery quietude of this list-serve. Tango-L was at one > time a place where many thoughts and opinions (most of which I was in > disagreement - but whatever) were fired back and forth daily. Now....? > > Anyway...it started like this: > > I live in a small town on the central coast of California. I was doing > the on-line dating thing (I think Yahoo) and had a coffee shop first > date with S., a woman I met on-line. It was a good first date. I > enjoyed talking with her, and she mentioned that she liked dancing. > (That screech and thud you heard was my small expectations coming to a > halt and hitting the wall.) I didn't know how to dance, but did go to > contemporary/modern dance recitals. The only dancing I did was > partner(less) free-style, and usually, only if I had enough to drink. > But, I did enjoy talking with S. and decided a second date was in > order. (Move forward a week or so.) While perusing the local > independent (meaning free) paper, the New Times, I chanced upon a > small (two paragraphs) article on an upcoming weekend tango workshops, > which would be preceded on the Friday evening by a Chamuyo and > demonstrations by the tango instructors, followed by a milonga - and > it was FREE. I emailed S. and asked her if she would like to attend. I > told her I knew NOTHING about Argentine Tango, but that some > instructors from Argentina would be talking about Argentine Tango and > be giving a demonstration (and it was free - which I didn't mention - > obviously). She thought it may be fun, having never danced the tango, > but had be taking West Coast Swing lessons. And thus my fate was sealed. > > That Friday night, I didn't understand most of what they were talking > about - both the guest instructors and tango community dancers, but > when the guest dancers took to the small dance floor...something > magical, beautiful, sensual, and elegant came alive in front of my > eyes, and in my heart, and in my soul. Never (outside of a dance > recital) could I imagine, two people, dancing together, as one, in a > social setting. I knew then, I would learn this extraordinary > dance...and I can say "learn this", rather than, "try to learn this", > because I quite realistically gave myself 10 years to learn. This was > October 29, 2004...and I will admit that it took a large part of those > 10 years reach a level of competency that makes the dance pleasurable > for my partner. > > So now it's been 14 years. Although S. and I parted ways after the > next date, I've always been grateful that she was interested in dance. > And as for those instructors: this is them on a much larger dance > floor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0oyWqOTU04 > _______________________________________________ > 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
