Long live the cabeceo! It protects everyone. The tradition developed for good reasons, as did the other milonga codes. The communication involved is uncomplicated body language. Difficult to teach? What's so hard about it? As long as you can make eye contact with another person, you can do it.
When visiting tango communities where cabeceo use is virtually non-existent, it seems somewhat harder to get a dance. My observation is that people tend to invite only those dancers they already know (possible already knowing they would accept), because they were using the direct invitation method. Whereas the cabeceo method seems to open up the likelihood of invitations to dance to others, too. Regards to all Patricia Petronio Tango Salón Adelaide www.tangosalonadelaide.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l