tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115345479350954256.post3706092281712710025..comments2023-10-14T15:52:29.871+01:00Comments on Tango commuter: Sub-category errorsTangocommuterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060601718946750364noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115345479350954256.post-17759598825155265942009-11-08T17:39:46.355+00:002009-11-08T17:39:46.355+00:00@lt, it is elegant, incredibly elegant! It's h...@lt, it <i>is</i> elegant, incredibly elegant! It's hard to know exactly how elegant it is until you watch a roomful of really good dancers. As you say, there's nothing like it, either to dance or even just to watch.Tangocommuterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14060601718946750364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115345479350954256.post-87760073621265444422009-11-06T17:12:54.651+00:002009-11-06T17:12:54.651+00:00They do feel different. I love the rigidity of cl...They do feel different. I love the rigidity of close embrace. I was amazed the first time I saw it that the upper body was so straight and all the movement was from the waist down. I thought it was so elegant. The trick is to be upright and relaxed arms at the same time. It's a knack, but once it's mastered there is nothing like it. For me, dancing Tango in this way was what attracted me to it in the first place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115345479350954256.post-57717042061361033352009-11-05T21:01:50.024+00:002009-11-05T21:01:50.024+00:00I certainly can follow both of these, and I feel t...I certainly can follow both of these, and I feel them as two different dances. They're danced to at least some of the same music, and the techniques overlap quite a bit, but they *feel* completely different, and I mostly want to dance them with different people. They're both fun, I like them both, but in completely different ways. I'd like to have a choice of places I could go to dance one or the other depending on my mood.<br /><br />For me, the open one is a lot more demanding physically and the close one is a lot more demanding cognitively - although I also have to get it right physically, or it doesn't work.msHedgehoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719152265628932122noreply@blogger.com