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You do not feel the difference between a leader concentrating on you and your connection together and compared to one that is stare pensively ahead when in open embrace? @ bordertangoman, sixela and GSSH You would rather be looking pensively ahead of you rather than concetrating on you partner?

Just goes to show that everybody has a different idea. But how do you maintain your concentration within the connection if you are not looking within the connection?

The thing that I have been wondering about is how do you maintain your concentration within the embrace you have with your follower. I would have thought that in open embrace especially your eyes should be concentrating on your partner's body postion and its alignment to you, subject to keeping...

LT how do you feel in the embrace when you are dancing milonga. I feel that this is when the embrace is closest and changes the least. If you are fine during a milonga and you are more worried about the change in the embrace when dancing tango, in my opinon this is really the reponsiblity of...

Gustavo teaches with Olivera. They come regularly (about one a year) to the UK where they teach at Tango Feast. I enjoyed classes I have had with them. They are based in BsAs where they have a regular class. Although they do tour a lot.If I remember correctly they have been mentioned on DF as...

In the context of what has been discussed I would say what Bastet was describing is part of the learning curve for a follower to what you have descibed Chan. With regard to the reduced size part of your post Chan maybe when done in the way you like it is as a result of the way the follower...

I have a suspicion that there are times when followers are moving with their partner and though their own musical interpretation and this is being accomodated by the leader and both are doing it effortlessly and without thought. Agreed Is this not the point at which a follower changes from...

The Vidadance shoes seem to be popular in the UK. However I have found the same problem as JohnEm regarding the width of these shoes. They do seem to have been made with a narrow fit so I suspect that they will not suit people that normally buy wider fitting shoes. I am not sure whether...

Hi TM. Please accept accept my condolenses on the loss of your father. I lost my mother some time ago and I remember the awful depressive feeling I got for some time. After a couple of months I decided to shake off the feeling as best I could. I found that when I went out dancing, for the...

The tendancy to buy thinsoled trainers and adapting the soles and maybe heels for dancing, is becoming more common in the milongas I attend.

I agree with this. As regards a performance from professional dancers (amateur dancers excepted) I think in terms of this is a public performance and can be video'd and put on to Youtube if I wanted and I would only change this view if there was an explicit ban on this in the literature...

I have been wondering how a follower would transmit these feelings to her partner in the dance and how a leader can then respond with confidence. Where a follower verbally transmits these anxiety feelings, for example with comments like "am I do what you want", "am I doing it right" I find...

I agree with generally with almost all your posts except the above. The OP did also pose this question

Personally I would take a couple of private lessons and get some objective feedback about my dancing and depending on what resulted I would start going to some milongas without my partner as he does not seem to be doing you any favours. From my point of view it is not different for men. Some...

The answer to the above in part is bound in with the passage being discussed. As I understand it, candidates are examined based upon the syllabus and accompanying instruction manual. Where the instruction manual is wrong, inaccurate or incomplete, which is what I am suggesting here, I would...