SLO Tango -- Who is Jeff of the Salsa World? rotating & all that jazz

[Bubba oldczak]

FYI: Jeff is the founder of Cal Poly Salsa and a very
smooth dancer.
Bubba your Tango/Salsa link.


--- Willow RunningHawk <runninghawk.willow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Queridos compañeros/compañeras:
> Laura asked me to put in my $.02, so here goes:
> I liked Jeff's email (copied below for those of you
> who haven't seen
> it) it's a nice list of good sense vis-a-vis tango.
> 
> Some people get so worked up about the classes and
> to rotate or not to
> rotate, it makes me think that they're just letting
> off steam that is
> being generated elsewhere.  I think our tango
> community is fabulous!
> Let people do what they like, if they want to be
> exclusive, well,
> that's their perogative, who cares?  (Apparently
> this does bother some
> people quite a lot... but you can't please everyone
> no matter how hard
> you try.)  Most of our more experienced dancers DO
> make an effort to
> dance with the less experienced and less familiar
> partners, and I love
> you all for that!
> 
> There has been talk of a tango town meeting, but
> that makes me quite
> uncomfortable.  Meetings are for work-related stuff,
> please!!  l don't
> want the outside world to contaminate my precious
> tango bubble.  Tango
> is what I do to escape from all that!
> I say we stay focused on what we love about tango...
> the dance, the
> music, the atmosphere, the warmth of our tango
> community... I love you
> all!
> 
> besos, Willow
> 
> **Hi all,
> 
> This is Jeff from the Salsa world and  I wanted to
> share my opinions
> about rotating.  I believe that in any group lesson,
> except those
> involving dangerous lifts and tricks, rotating
> should be strongly
> strongly encouraged.  I'd go one step further by
> arguing that advanced
> Tango dancers should rotate with the same sex, so
> that they learn the
> follow and lead.  Tango originated this way, did it
> not?
> 
> Here's why rotation should be obligitory:
> 
> 1. It's more inclusive.  All those single dancers
> out there will want
> to take the class that let's them participate,
> obviously.
> 
> 2. You'll learn how to dance with many types of
> leads/follows.  Do you
> really want to be a great dancer with your parter
> but no one else?
> 
> 3. Work out bad habits more quickly.  If you learn
> with only one
> partner, he/she may not be able to catch everything
> you are doing
> wrong.
> 
> 4. Stronger bond between participants.  You will
> make your Tango
> community stronger by rotating.  It sounds cheesy
> but it's true.
> 
> 5. Better way to gage the different levels of
> dancing.  You'll have a
> better understanding of what makes a good dancer and
> what makes a bad
> dancer by learning with the good and the bad.
> 
> 6. Chance to take a mini-vacation from partner.  Do
> you really want to
> dance the whole time with your partner, anyway?
> 
> So that's about it.  It's an interesting debate but
> I think rotation
> wins hands down.  Good luck and I hope you figure
> out what is best for
> you and your Tango community.  -Jeff.**
> 
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