Anyway i think we should all learn to tango

I have tangoed yesterday for the first time in my life, for real. I have heard that the tango can be very healing to many people, specifically, as a partner dance, for very specific reasons, after telling somebody this following story.

The first time I had ever seen the tango danced was in a club in Berlin, where I walked into and it seemed like it was a shot out of a movie, everybody dressed up dancing like they are a professional. that scene made a very big impression on me and I kept an eye out for an opportunity to dance it.

this opportunity happened yesterday

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This guy invited me, thought I said I knew how, then when I said I did not abandoned me to go dance with all the other people he already knew and who knew how to tango

😢

in his defense he did take me to the main teacher and asked what we should do, and she said to just sign up for the 6 week bootcamp they do

i am in town for 3 days

And so i did what any sensible person would do and i sat and observed trying to figure out the basic step

I could not figure it out

there was this little slide the ladies were doing sometimes, and there were these little spins that the ladies did, but I could not figure out the basic count, the way that exists for the samba, the salsa, and the waltz.

I kept looking at people for a while though

This guy sat next to me and was chatting me up

I said so whats the deal with them not being able to teach me to do literally anything, is tango not teachable?

He said yeah you really just gotta do that bootcamp

I said well is there a basic step

He said no there is not. there is a set of parameters and then you improvise a lot within them

hmmm

alright

this is starting to be promising.

I ask what is your field of study and he said chemistry

At this point I am like alright

Promising

chemistry people often are not intimidated by challenges, or have special ways of pushing through them. they are used to hard psets and staying up late

chemistry people are also potentially good about explaining clear parameters

I say okay chemistry boy

Are you going to attempt to teach me the tango or give up.

You are saying there is a lot of improv involved

And so can we not improv?

He says it is complicated

I say I am not afraid

So we go and he does some stuff

And is like wow you are a very fast learner

And I am like ...

I have at least 6 years on you and have also danced the salsa, the waltz, and the samba in the past. I am not completely confused

😂

And so he dances with me for a long time and I conclude the tango is my favorite of the dances I have done

🔥👏🔥

It is process oriented

There are principles and constraints you improvise inside of

And the man really does have to lead hard and the woman does have to follow very very hard

Then I see the Austrian woman the man who abandoned me left me for to dance with

And get her number

🔥

the man then hits me up an hour later and then 2 hours after than and then 2 hours after that

Which i do not notice because i am drunk with my friend at an indoor smoking shop, trying to write my sonnet for sonnet movie club

Anyway now I think we all should learn to tango

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