On 22/06/2011 21:33, RonTango wrote: > That's ridiculous. You can balance your weight over the balls of your feet and > still not look at the floor.
Of course. I don't dispute you don't *have* to look down to the floor (nor that its not that elegant to do so). The original poster, though, implied that you *could* not maintain your balance with a head tilted down, and that's plainly untrue. It would be hard to look down if leaders had the weight on the heels most of the time, but they don't. I see tango-l people are still as ready as ever to shoot the messenger. Next I expect private mails deriding my "style" with head looking down at the floor even though I said nothing about how I dance (with my most frequent follower I'd be unable to look at the floor, given my head touches hers, and in a more open embrace I really try not to look at the floor for aesthetic reasons, but I'm not hung up on it too much either)... Witness this Croatian couple: http://tangoargentino.hr/blog_en/?page_id=4 I don't think that his posture looks particularly nice, but he does seem to make it work, doesn't he? _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l