sixela
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i haven't suffered 'enough' either, then. I've still been dancing for over 20 years.
You put in your tango what you have, and I bet there's usually enough if you are 17.
At what age did you started to dance tango?
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You put in your tango what you have, and I bet there's usually enough if you are 17.
Shrug: it's just a dance ...
Of course you can with milonga, and maybe even with vals,
but tango is serious bizzness.
Any questions?
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I must be doing it wrong. I'll have to work on that.
I'll remember that next time you pick me up completely off the floor in one of those "cut-loose" tandas.
opendoor
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The question what you have reached (compared to your aims or dreams) actually comes into my mind. For one week I am wearing splint and crutches again and I think, was that it. Has it been a good job? What was left to do. And of course I am not that early perfect genius, rather the contrary of it.
Yikes!!! You've been having some bad luck the past couple years. I hope you are dancing again soon.
So, you've brought injuries / aging as a dancer up several times and in different threads. Will you share with us the details of what has happened?
If not, let me just say, take care of yourself and heal quickly.
If not, let me just say, take care of yourself and heal quickly.
sixela
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opendoor
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Yes, it does good. My tango testimony: I am dancing 10 years, started at the age of 45. I never danced before, never saw a dancing school from inside as a teen. By some turbulences (divorce) ten years ago I started dancing tango by chance. It really was a totally new chapter of my life. I lived tango, being out to milongas every night of the week in the first year. Everything was in focus: social competence, competence with women, body work and awareness, temperamental developement, determination, and of course self-affirmation. I have been ambitious all the time: In the beginning I refused any teaching and instruction and learned totally on my own. In the recent years I learned in privates from a former balleriana. Though I think I am talented, my body always set limits: neck, spine, and shoulders in the beginning, balance and straightening afterwards, and my left knee in the end. Two years ago I dislocated my knee, and since then, it actually did not normalize again. The cartilage got a notch, rayed ligaments and menisci, Baker´s cyst in the joint line, permanent sore goose foot. Two medical opinions guess that it was not sure if endoscopic surgery could eleminate the problems. So I decided for a conservative treatment, but without success. Now, for one week I am wearing a splint again, as it was for several month two years ago. So what I am actually doing is kind of sealing the deal. What did I reach, what was left to do if my dancing has an end now. I lived an intensive tango life, but again, it feels like standing unfinished at the edge of a great canyon.