Hello Doug (and everyone), Welcome to a dance in which you'll never be fully satisfied with how you dance. With time, you'll suck less and less. Just enjoy the process, which is much more important than the end result, anyway. So what if you don't become the next Miguel Zotto.
As for those who are negative constantly, I feel sorry for them (and for their students!). Their lives are so bad that to feel good about themselves (or their dance) they try to bring others down. How sad is that! But why should their lives affect what you do with yours? Don't let that happen! So, post away. Plenty of people on this list find questions from newbies to be interesting. Sometimes they cause experienced dancers/teachers to reevaluate long-held beliefs, explore forgotten ideas, or expand their teaching/learning styles. And even if you do think "the cabaceo is stupid!", it can still add insight to the issues many of us face in educating and sharing the culture surrounding this dance. Doug (and everyone), this is your list. Help make it the list you want it to be. This may sound cold, but ultimately, whatever fears/concerns you have about posting to this list are yours to deal with and no one elses'. Likewise, put the responsibility of flaming where it belongs - on the flamers. Don't accept their issues as your own. Why should you compromise your learning tango because of someone else's problem? And something tells me that you're mature enough to handle them, anyway. Looking forward to your future posts. Trini de Pittsburgh --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am dancer 12 years but only beginning Tango dancer (1 > year). I am not > great Tango dancer. Although I read Tango-L list, I > don't contribute to > list. It does not feel safe to do so. Maybe I write a > lot. Maybe good > ideas, maybe not. I go to New York, or BsAs, or > somewhere. My dancing > sucks. Everything I write is discount and all ideas bad. > Maybe in 5 or 10 > years when I dance good, or maybe not good but good > enough, I can write to > Tango-L. You think? > > > > D. > PATangoS - Pittsburgh Argentine Tango Society Our Mission: To make Argentine Tango Pittsburghs most popular social dance! http://patangos.home.comcast.net/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l