[Tango-L] Cabeceo

2010-10-22 Thread Joe Grohens
> How do you get the waiter's attention at a nice restaurant? Do you physically > go into the kitchen to retrieve him. The discussion of the cabaceo and waiters reminds me of an incident that happened during our first trip to Buenos Aires. We went to a milonga that served dinner. We were hungry

Re: [Tango-L] The care and feeding of new leads.

2010-10-22 Thread Dubravko Kakarigi
Excellent questions Mario. Yes, I am a male. My first few months were really scary. During my first visit to Buenos Aires (by myself), year and a half after I started dancing it took me one hour to get enough guts to walk up to El Beso, etc. etc. Why did I continue? Because I had the dance insi

[Tango-L] The care and feeding of new leads.

2010-10-22 Thread Mario
Are you a male? Do you remember your first two years? What was it like at the beginning? Why did you decide to try/do it? What was it like after several months...a year? And at the year and a half point...why were you still trying hard? ...What was THE problem? ..What kept you going t'il

Re: [Tango-L] Male / Female defining the roles

2010-10-22 Thread Mario
OK...sure, if you know someone and you think that the music is copasetic (sp?) and you want to dance..sure between friends ...ask him but I'm just putting out a philosophy of why not to... to let the guy feel it first and then ask you...and why this has more of a chance of providing a memo