Why years of tango will not make you an advanced dancer

[salsamarty]

Probably a lot of truth here that applies to salsa too.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/vero...vanced-dancer-and-what-will/10151715892417499

 

[vit]

Yes, most of it applies to salsa and other social dances too (except specifics for the dance, like embrace, but if we use connection instead, it also applies, just that connection type depends on the dance). Yust I don't understand why tango is written with big and bold letters, like it's the only of a kind (except ballet that is also mentioned)

 

[hyh]

A truly advanced dancer is able to "downshift" and make the partner still feel good. If you think of yourself as advanced leader but you feel incapacitated with a partner below your level, then you are not really advanced, you are just "highly specialized". You have learned to speak about quantum mechanics but are incapable of discussing the weather. If as a follower you feel a terrific dancer with partners of high level but you cannot keep your balance or complete your movement with a lower-level one, then you are not advanced, you are "co-dependent". A queen is a queen no matter whom she talks to.

... and the reason the partner feels good should be not because the "advanced" dancer was "kind enough" to dance with him/her. Advice for dancing with super advanced dudes should not be needed.

 

[terence]

). Yust I don't understand why tango is written with big and bold letters, like it's the only of a kind (except ballet that is also mentioned)

Because thats the way "they " feel !

 

[Salsa Student]

Another good article from her: https://www.facebook.com/notes/vero...-start-asking-yourself-questions/393997617498

 

[salsaflix]

Because thats the way "they " feel !

Sadly (especially as a tango dancer) there is a strand in tango culture that sees their dance as superior to all others.