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

[Willow RunningHawk]

Who's Bubba?

On 8/4/07, Bubba oldczak <slowroads at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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