Learning to follow still feels to me like an absurdly ambitious goal, but even at this early and utterly incompetent stage, I’ve started to see some signs of progress.
One of these is finding that an approach which was wrong for me when I first started this adventure is now exactly what I need …
Continue reading Returning to a centimetre-by-centimetre approach to following, this time at the right momentI last week mentioned my relationship status with milonga: “It’s complicated.“
There’s still a huge gap between what my head would like to be doing, and what my body feels it can lead at milonga speeds, alongside a concern about a possibly equal-sized gap between follower expectations and my reality. On the other hand, there are followers who knowingly drag me out onto the pista for milonga tandas, and even a couple who specifically seek me out for them.
While the focus of my current privates is following, Irina Zoueva expressed her confidence in upping my milonga leading game several levels – and the resulting private turned out to give me a little following practice too …
Continue reading Making my simple milonga a little less simple, and a little more milongaKapka Kassabova probably frustrated every other tango author and might-be tango author when she snaffled the absolutely perfect name for a book on the topic: 12 Minutes of Love. (Which I really must review sometime soon.)
Last night’s Tango Secrets was four hours of love – or rather, three hours and 48 minutes, as the inconsiderate Elizabeth Line schedule means London-based visitors have to skip the last tanda …
Continue reading Three hours and 48 minutes of love: A perfect night at Tango SecretsWordPress tells me that I’ve written 408 posts in this blog, with an average wordcount of 2,600. That’s, um, more than a million words; I have no idea how that happened.
But there are times when somebody else’s words are so perfect that I have nothing to add …
Continue reading Dancing milonguero-style – a Tango Mentor blog postI was rather shocked to see that my last following lesson was way back in September! I had another private with Emma in the diary for a week ago, but unfortunately she caught a nasty bug and then disappeared off to India. (Bit of an extreme way to avoid subjecting herself to my following, if you ask me.)
I knew I desperately needed more practice, but I’d felt hesitant about doing more than extremely occasional intercambio tandas at milongas, for two reasons …
Continue reading Solving the problem of how to get more following practice, with a visit to Queer Tango London
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