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Cortinas
When I dance, I dance the follow. She is all possiblities. She evokes
any face she chooses - anger, lust, sex, passion, hatred, jealousy, love. I
listen for the emotion, thought, and action of her desires. I stand on
the edge of what she evokes and coax her across. She will follow, or she
will not. The dance continues.
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The Tango Commandments
#1 Thou shalt wear black.
#2 - #10 Repeat
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It's not about the feet. It's about the step. And, the minute you start
thinking about the next step you are not dancing tango.
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How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Two. David and me.
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How the Moon Stays in the Sky
Two equally balanced forces: one moving forward in its path, the other
continually falling into the first.
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And then he asked, "Were you wearing a black dress at the dance? I
thought so. You were the beautiful woman in black."
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Floating through a dance, I asked Fabian, "What do the lyrics mean?"
Fabian thought and then replied, "The girl leaves. The girl always leaves."
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It is a truism that in order to dance the tango one must first change
one's self.
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When one dances...bashfulness should be left behind.
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Since comparisons to cars are in vogue at the moment, I will try one of
my own. Some men act as if they are cars which have just experienced a
complete brake failure and my foot is the wall which will bring them to
a stop. If you try this with your car, you will likely find you have
damaged the wall. Men who stop on their own at the last possible moment before
reaching my foot, so that the actual contact feels like a caress, can
wear any kind of shoes they want. My only suggestion would go to the
playfyl men who like to run their foot up my leg as an adornment. Make sure
your shoes are smooth so you don't snag my panty hose!
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"Can you help me get her to do what I want?" asked the struggling lead. "John, be the Hero!" answered his teacher.
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"Tango is a terrifying dance," she whispered. "If you have any control issues, forget it. You must surrender completely to him, and to the dance."
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First you take her in your arms. You wait. You smell her perfume.
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The true dance of the tango is in the spaces, the suspension, the pause between each musical note. Every step is the last step.
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"I'm so bored with my own dancing," complained my gentleman friend. "I need more patterns." "You already know enough patterns," said his teacher. "It is time to forget the patterns. It is time to dance the tango."
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Tango is a labyrinth; music is the thread leading to the way out.
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Tango is the dance for grown-ups.
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Waltz gave me confidence on the dance floor. Tango gave me confidence in myself. If waltz is the heart of the dance, tango is the soul.
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Tango is torah. Tango is zen. Tango is sixth chakra. Tango is qi gong with another person. Tango is sensual and transcendent. I am in awe of tango.
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Then an absolute and definite experience of luminosity develops. It
flashes on and off; sometimes you experience it, and sometimes you do
not experience it but you are in it...these visions actually happen, not in
terms of art at all. One is not exactly aware of their presence, but an
abstract quality begins to develop, purely based on energy. When energy
becomes independent, complete energy, it begins to look at itself and
perceive itself, which transcends the ordinary idea of perception. It
is as though you walk because you know you do not need any support; you
walk unconsciously. It is that kind of independent energy without any
self-consciousness, which is not at all phantasy - but then again, at
the same time, one never knows.
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Sitting and watching the dancers in Buenos Aires, an old gentleman
leaned toward me and said, "That walking. That's the real tango."
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