Tango opens who you really are. What is it?

[elenapankey2004]

What do you learn about other person or yourself when you dance it?
Some people don't want to learn it because they afraid of what they can realize about themselves.
Tango opens your personality, your hidden vulnerabilities. From the first moment when you touch your partner, you might know all about him. The energy inside the Tango embrace is a channel to your partner mind. Some people could read it easily! You never can hide anything during that "dance."This is why some people afraid of it...It takes so much effort...

[Shooshoo]

You really think so?? I'll have to start taking lessons to find out :) .

[DrewDL]

I think that is true, but I also think it is true everywhere ... who you are in life, you are in tango, and vice-a-versa. But also, who you are in life is who you are in relationships ... who you are in life is who you are when you play video games. Etc.

[Pathological Dancer]

What do you learn about other person or yourself when you dance it?
Some people don't want to learn it because they afraid of what they can realize about themselves.
Tango opens your personality, your hidden vulnerabilities. From the first moment when you touch your partner, you might know all about him. The energy inside the Tango embrace is a channel to your partner mind. Some people could read it easily! You never can hide anything during that "dance."This is why some people afraid of it...It takes so much effort...


I just analyze the steps and leave it at that. IMHO AT dancers are supposedly analytical and if so, they should realize that dance behavior or mannerisms are not sufficient to make conclusions regarding one's personality. It is not an independent predictor and there are so many variables that influence personality. Again, that's just my opinion.

[Sagitta]

Depends on how one dances. Some just keep a part of themselves walled off.

[Zaratustra shaking it]

Just Dont agree...
Its just a dance, like any other... (no superpowers involved)

[jon]

It is very easy to make assumptions about what your partner is thinking or feeling while dancing, based on how they dance.

It is very hard to make correct assumptions on that basis.

Catrine Ljunggren (of Rhythm Hot Shots fame) was teaching at a blues dance in San Francisco last week and told us an interesting story from her AT experiences. To simplify the 10 minute story, she had a jaw-droppingly amazing dance with a fellow she'd never seen before, one where she felt completely open and vulnerable and connected. And proceeded to try and produce that reaction in others by dancing as though it was the last dance she'd ever have. Good stuff. But one particularly interesting aspect was that, when she later talked to the leader who started her down this path, he did not seem to have been aware of the effect he was having on her, or reflect that in his own thoughts and feelings about the dance :-)

[Shooshoo]

It is very easy to make assumptions about what your partner is thinking or feeling while dancing, based on how they dance.

It is very hard to make correct assumptions on that basis.

Catrine Ljunggren (of Rhythm Hot Shots fame) was teaching at a blues dance in San Francisco last week and told us an interesting story from her AT experiences. To simplify the 10 minute story, she had a jaw-droppingly amazing dance with a fellow she'd never seen before, one where she felt completely open and vulnerable and connected. And proceeded to try and produce that reaction in others by dancing as though it was the last dance she'd ever have. Good stuff. But one particularly interesting aspect was that, when she later talked to the leader who started her down this path, he did not seem to have been aware of the effect he was having on her, or reflect that in his own thoughts and feelings about the dance :-)

It's really something how the mind works. One wonders what is real and what is an illusion, in dance and other life aspects?

[bordertangoman]

Just Dont agree...
Its just a dance, like any other... (no superpowers involved)


I agree with this. Like Zen practice some experience Sartori and others do not. I just dance..... nothing more

[elZorro]

I think when people begin drawing assumptions and making inferences of some sort of mystical connection with their partners, they lose any connection they had. They replace real attention and possible connection with something from their overactive imaginations.