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TTanguero said:
Reminds me of a time I cabeceod a follower I didn't know. Sitting, she looked quite tall, but not super-tall. However, as soon as she stood up it was a different story! In the embrace, I literally couldn't see over her shoulder. I had to progress around the ronda by leading a turn to check the space before every move forwards. :D
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I’ve asked some of my short regular partners how they deal with not seeing over my shoulder. The answer is typically that they simply do lots and lots of turns and have extra awareness of others and the space. Frankly, I have more issues with guys who are not used to not being able to see above their partner.
 
Miradamiranda said:
The answer is typically that they simply do lots and lots of turns and have extra awareness of others and the space
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Yeah, I find it's far less of an issue in milongas with good floorcraft, where you can trust that the space you see now will still be there (possibly minus a small back-step from the couple ahead) a beat or two later.
 
Admittedly, this thread has strayed a bit from the path. However, I would like to suggest that you visit us all sometime. I assume that everyone who responded here would personally present you in the best possible way on their dance floors. Explore the tango world. I for one live in Hamburg (Germany), and until the late 90s, Londoners regularly danced tango here on every Friday at the La Yumba, within sight of the clubs where the Beatles once became famous. Ryan was cheaper than the London Underground back then.
 
Miradamiranda said:
I’ve asked some of my short regular partners how they deal with not seeing over my shoulder. The answer is typically that they simply do lots and lots of turns and have extra awareness of others and the space.
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That's pretty much it.

I'm not short (179cm), but I have several favorite partners who are taller than me before heels. With them, I have to dance lots of turns to remain situationally aware. That isn't a big deal because even with the shortest partners, my dance is principally circular anyway . . . rondas here move so sluggishly that walking straight down the line of dance is a forlorn hope. Things get hairy only when some twit of a leader decides to take a big step back or, more often, send their partner back in a turn between when I take my looks. I turn mostly around a shared axis, each partner taking the place of the other, but most leaders here insist on turns that send their partner out around them instead, and thus back against the line of dance for half the turn, even when there's no space between couples.

The other thing that helps is the good old "dance turned 45° clockwise to the line of dance" trick. That lets me see up the line of dance over the open side regardless of partner height. I don't worry about the closed side because that's against the line of dance, where I don't go anyway.

I've had more trouble with other leaders dancing with too-tall partners, because lots of them don't do the above things. They just blunder around blindly, leading a long-legged follower into others.
 
opendoor said:
Admittedly, this thread has strayed a bit from the path. However, I would like to suggest that you visit us all sometime. I assume that everyone who responded here would personally present you in the best possible way on their dance floors.
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Just in general, were ever I to learn that someone here planned to come to Montréal, I would do my best. We get a lot of tango tourists here, but mostly from the rest of Canada, the U.S.A., South America, and East Asia. For the most part, Europeans are relatively rare (with the obvious exception of people from France). We used to get a lot of Eastern Europeans, but the current unpleasantness between Russia and pretty much everybody seems to have reduced that to a trickle.
 
opendoor said:
Admittedly, this thread has strayed a bit from the path. However, I would like to suggest that you visit us all sometime. I assume that everyone who responded here would personally present you in the best possible way on their dance floors. Explore the tango world. I for one live in Hamburg (Germany), and until the late 90s, Londoners regularly danced tango here on every Friday at the La Yumba, within sight of the clubs where the Beatles once became famous. Ryan was cheaper than the London Underground back then.
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What's your thoughts on Andres Sautel, since he's based in Hamburg. He posts a lot of tango vids online https://www.instagram.com/andres_tango
 
tangoing said:
What's your thoughts on Andres Sautel, since..
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He's the best dancer in town. I saw him on stage in "María de Buenos Aires," which he choreographed. He's very hardworking and travels a lot for his success, especially to Asia. Despite this, he's remained approachable. Many of these clips were filmed during his weekly práctica. Every ambitious young follower in town takes privates with him. I can also be seen in the background in some clips. However, I'm dancing less and less. Andrés is highly recommended as a teacher because he can precisely verbalize what he's demonstrating. My teacher was Karin Solana, a former ballerina. She brought Andrés to Hamburg. But then he quickly became her competition.
 
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JournalInTime said:
Where I dance, a large proportion of tangueras – young and old, newly arrived and known, beginner and advanced – wear dance trousers, "harem pants," jumpsuits, culottes, demis, etc. Many younger ones prefer jeans, or the T-shirt-and-overalls look.
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That's sad.
 
I am not sure I know what women wear. I might have finished a tanda with someone and if you ask me what she was wearing or color, I am very likely to draw blank. If it is something common it doesn’t register. If it is uncommon and stands out, it will register only because it is standing out. It doesn’t influence whether I want to dance or not.
 
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