“Only say yes if you want to. It’s better to be rejected for one second by a turned-away “Mirada” than being rejected for twelve minutes in an uncommitted embrace.” This post was done by a fellow “milonguera” and it touches in one of the most important issues in tango. More than the content of this message, which is related with the presence or not of a (closed) embrace, which relate to a particular style of dance. For me the all point is: “how committed I am with the person I go to dance”? I guess that all of us in tango, by any reason, we went to dance with a person and we did not give everything and we were not 100% committed. Too bad, because it is not need to dance with the same person more than 12 minutes and we should really give everything. I guess that more in tango you are, more you feel how committed the other person is to dance with you. Or you can feel what the person it is up to, on the moment of embrace (either more open or closed). Let assume that this sensibility is developed over time. Your level of commitment to dance and the total sum of those commitments along the milonga might indicate how good the milonga is for you. This can be multiplied if you feel also that other dancers are committed to dance with you. The objective of this note it is not to analyse, the reasons why we choose to dance with A instead of B or C. Neither the risks we take to dance new persons. Or I always choose first or I let myself to be invited? Around these reasons are our individual human characteristics and these make tango so intense and mysterious.
Publish on Dec 19, 2017 9:32:56 am
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