Comments on: Ranting, ranting

By: michael

michael — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:04:12 +0000

Hi,

first of all, great blog.

I too have just got the tango bug (though cuban salsa is my first love).

Totally agree on overanalysing. My yoga teachers mantra is “do your practice and all is coming”…stolen from her teacher who is 90 and still fit as a fiddle. Wise words methinks.

Thank you again for sharing, from sunny London.

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:59:44 +0000

I’m sure you would have still started a blog - if someone is in love with something and they like to write, a blog is inevitable.

What’s your big news? Coming to BA? Moving somewhere? Looking forward to hearing it!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:40:32 +0000

Hola again Tina!

No, it doesn’t surprise me. I’m sure most normal folks who live in BA dance once or a few times a week (or every two weeks). I should have said the luxury of “being able to go” to a milonga 7 nights…and “I still love you even tough I ‘may’ bore you…at times…”

It’s all good, though. It makes me wonder if I would have ever started a blog if I were actually dancing more/regularly.

This will all be changing very soon. I have a big news I will be sharing within the next week.

Take care…

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:19:56 +0000

Hi Alex, thank you for commenting! Would it surprise you to know that I only dance about 2 or 3 times a week? (Thurs, Fri, Sat)…
Anyway it’s nice to be able to know what goes through the mind and heart of another blogger, particularly a male who at times does take a more cerebral approach. I appreciate the comment (and the love).

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:49:47 +0000

Hola Tina,

Many of us, unfortunately, experience the majority of our tango in our heads. We don’t have the luxury of going to a milonga seven nights a week. I’m lucky if I can dance one night, for two or three hours, in seven weeks. There have been periods where I have gone for three or four months without dancing at all.

So, as a result, we tend to think about the details rather than dance the details.

Follower energy is a recurring issue for me, but not being able to dance it and figure it out, occasionally a thought/idea/concept pops into my head and I choose to blog about it. I don’t expect to get any real resolution in blogdom, but I just throw it out there. It’s not like I am over-analyzing and pondering this BS 24/7.

Plus, being bitten by tango, it’s not like I can just stop thinking about it, especially when I’m in a dancing dry spell. The nearest milonga for me is 4 hours of driving (to and fro) and at least a $60 expense between gas and cover.

And lastly, quite to the contrary of your second sentence, I blog exactly because I am still trying to figure tango out - not because I think I am an expert.

I still love you even though I bore you.

By: mtnhighmama

mtnhighmama — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:57:37 +0000

I’m with you about naming steps. I try really hard to NOT think about the steps, but to feel them in my body (not always successfully!). I have a leader in one of my classes that repeatedly asks me how to do his part of whatever we are working on and then gets frustrated when I tell him I don’t know. We might be able to work it out with our bodies, but he wants the words from me, and I just don’t have them.

So, I agree, my eyes glaze over, but I also recognize for the people that need to put it into words to “get it”, there must be value. Just not for me.

By: TP

TP — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:37:36 +0000

I can never visualize words to actual physical movement, nor associate numbers with music and steps. The only name of the step that I know is “walk”.

I thought it was just me.

By: one2tango

one2tango — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:04:57 +0000

Well, it had to be said:)
Just don´t read it. Buy shoes!!! :)))
Besos

By: tangobaby

tangobaby — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:47:07 +0000

Nope. I think you’re awesome.

xoxo

By: caroline

caroline — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:10:59 +0000

Yeah, with you there.