When a dance relies on the male to lead and female to follow in principle,
female are more on the mercy of the men. Period.
It does not have to be a teacher-student relationship. In communities where
tangueras out-number tangueros and with very few accomplished tangueros,
tangueras may find themselves being approached with unwanted sexual movements
or invitations, or face with the potential that she would be "black-balled" in
the future anymore. If it is not sexual harassment, I don't know what is.
(I do not aware of a tango community that tangueros out-number tangueras.
Educate me if I am wrong.)
I know personally that such "sexual harassment" happens in Bs As, and in a few
communities in Japan. (Astrid: may be not the case for you because you have
been in your community for a long time, and are a hakugin....)
The point I take home with, is that we should not be pinpointing at a specific
case in Denver (although I recall that community having some colorful stories
of dancers' relationships in the past), but to encourage anyone to stay alert
and speak out.
Argentine tango outside its motherland is patronized by the educated. It is
ashamed that we cannot handle problems like educated people would have done.
Bibi
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