As a lady who plans to go to the new "Leading Ladies" practica in LA and is entirely grateful for its inception, I thought I'd throw in my point of view, lest the lovely organizer of said practica takes umbrage at all the outrage over ladies leading, and cancels the practica.
Maybe some of the women who will go to this practica lead socially, or plan to. I don't know. Personally, I don't ever plan to or want to lead at a "regular" milonga. However, I very much want to improve my understanding of the dance by learning to lead. Someday in the distant future, I would love to be a teacher of tango and being able to understand leading as well as following will, I feel, make me a much better teacher when that time comes. Also, when trying to tempt non-tango friends to try tango, I have discovered that leading them in even a small bit of tango piques their interest FAR more than any of my verbal enthusiasms about the dance. : ) And thus, I am very, very excited that there will be a "private" setting where I can practice leading. : ) _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
