Getting criticised on my tango walk by a newbie!

aaah said:
hello all,
Receiving a lot of criticism abouto my walk. she is a 3 week beginner but told me I don't collect enough and that I need to dance with more passion like I want to walk through her with long strides. I think she is believing her dance instructor's hyoe to dance in a showing off salon way. the kind of tsngo you could never do in small spaces. both are russians. otherwise she is very nice and I hzve enjoyed dancing with her until yesterday. it eats away at my confidence and next thiing I am dancing demoralized or stage tango

I have been dancing several years and pride myself on a porteno straight leg walk no one else has complained. I think she is on the wrong track. one guy she pointed out to me as a powerful dancer likes to stick his leg between hers --in a dirty dancing way ---yes she is a beauty.


next time I should disagree and tell her that I know what I am doing --- or that stage tango is not my way of dancing tango

what is your take on newbies telling you how to do it-- and how would you handle if you still want to dance with them.
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Everybody brings their OWN style to the dance floor. Sometimes styles coincide and sometimes they clash. Everybody ISN'T compatible with everybody else. You didn't mention if the woman is your height.

Women aren't interchangeable like light bulbs.
 
I was in a beginners class yesterday because I love beginners classes, and the new student criticized me before I even touched her. Then during the milonga some dancer ladies who have been doing this a while were nice enough to dance with me and they didn't say anything.
 
AndaBien said:
If you ask me, everything you need to know comes from beginners classes. It's take lots of experience to figure that out.
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Yeah, it's amazing how many intermediate and advanced classes one has to take to find out that they need to take beginner classes.

And then take them again.

And again.

Tango classes should really be titled (and structured):
Beginner Class for 1st timers
Beginner Class for those who have had an intro
Beginner Class for those who have had a little more than an intro
Beginner Class for intermediate dancers
Beginner Workshop for dancers who want a whole day of Beginner class
Beginner Class for Advanced dancers
Beginner Festival for dancers who just can't get enough.
Beginner Private for dancers who need personal attention to master beginner level dancing.

I think I've actually taken all these classes.. they just weren't called that.
 
Zoopsia59 said:
Yeah, it's amazing how many intermediate and advanced classes one has to take to find out that they need to take beginner classes...
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Good one.

We should have:
  1. Newbie Beginners
  2. Freshman Beginners
  3. Sophomore Beginners
  4. Junior Beginners
  5. Senior Beginners
  6. Masters Beginners
  7. PhD Beginners
By the time you got to be a PhD, you'd really know your beginner stuff.
 
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