Comments on: El Abrazo perfecto http://tangopadawan.com/2008/07/11/el-abrazo-perfecto/ Tango Student Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:30:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Debor Ah http://tangopadawan.com/2008/07/11/el-abrazo-perfecto/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Debor Ah Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:59:59 +0000 http://tangopadawan.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/el-abrazo-perfecto/#comment-48 Indeed, the elusiveness of such glimpses are the puzzle that feeds us on and off the dance floor. We have an ideal vision of a decorous, kind-hearted society where evil does not exist. But evil abounds. So the dance floor is a venue for potential tenderness. Yet such tenderness is rarely pure. When it is, we exult, we do not have to think, everything is right, and simply flowing. To step immediately into that perfect embrace requires that all doubt is essentially snapped off, and that is quite difficult. Questions of who is this person, what will our dance be like, persist if the answers are not pleasing. Less experienced dancers are too distracted by trying to "do it right" to simply sink into the moment, the mood of the music, and to truly improvise with the music and one's partner. But more experienced dancers too can become rigid in their expectations of whether or not this partner is good enough to dance with them.... Only when both are willing to let go of expectation, and sink into the music, is there the potential to find a new expression, and to taste freedom for a bit. The embrace is perfect for some steps, then perhaps too wary in others, perfect one day, and another day, due to all the fluctations in the universe, elusive again... Indeed, the elusiveness of such glimpses are the puzzle that feeds us on and off the dance floor. We have an ideal vision of a decorous, kind-hearted society where evil does not exist. But evil abounds. So the dance floor is a venue for potential tenderness. Yet such tenderness is rarely pure. When it is, we exult, we do not have to think, everything is right, and simply flowing.

To step immediately into that perfect embrace requires that all doubt is essentially snapped off, and that is quite difficult. Questions of who is this person, what will our dance be like, persist if the answers are not pleasing. Less experienced dancers are too distracted by trying to “do it right” to simply sink into the moment, the mood of the music, and to truly improvise with the music and one’s partner. But more experienced dancers too can become rigid in their expectations of whether or not this partner is good enough to dance with them….

Only when both are willing to let go of expectation, and sink into the music, is there the potential to find a new expression, and to taste freedom for a bit. The embrace is perfect for some steps, then perhaps too wary in others, perfect one day, and another day, due to all the fluctations in the universe, elusive again…

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