Bailar como un hombre
Would you like the woman in your embrace dancing like a man, marching like a soldier, say during the song of Poema? Probably not, right? A woman should look and feel like a woman: sexy, beautiful and feminine. A masculine follower doesn’t get much cabaceos, at least at the milongas where I have been going to.
A woman tangos like a woman, a man tangos like a man. It is natural, that yin and yang thing. When two becomes one, it is the most beautiful to see and feel. When I was in Buenos Aires, from the 72 year old Padro who has been dancing over fifty years to Javier who is younger than I am, every man that I met who dances tango, has this universal message: stand like a man and walk like a hombre.
When I left La Nacional last night, I took a glimpse of these men, who are supposed to be the creme of creme in the NY tango scene, dancing, which inspired this post. I felt ill watching these men dancing like they haven’t eaten for a week. I wanted to stop them and said to them: “Guys, please, dance like a man.”
Hi! I wonder what you think about two women dancing together. What happens with yin and yan?
Let me tell you I dance with my partner (another woman) switching back and forth leading and following. You dont need to be a man in order to lead. You can totally lead as a woman!
It is fun to watch two beautiful chicas dancing with each other. Sometimes it makes my night.
You could dance tango solo too, you don’t need either a man or woman.
My understanding of tango is always that: tango is not about leading and following. I think that a lot of people are addicted to tango not because it is just another social dance. It is because these people have, at some point of their journey, been touched by the magic of tango. It might be fun to switch back and forth leading and following, practicing some fancy moves. But in the end, if you are a heterosexual woman and you prefer dancing with another woman, I dare to say this: You haven’t danced with a real man. You don’t know what you are missing.