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What is the dynamic of the tango dancers development? In the ... Male or femaledancers, have their difficulties along the way and most of them ...

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Phase 1 – This is the hardest part of the male dancer’s development.

In fact, I do not think it is an exaggeration if I say that in all those phases I am explaining here – this is the hardest one of all. It is really miracle of motivation and determination (and sometimes love) that the male dancers learn tango at all.

• It is harder for him in this first phase because he can be overwhelmed by the amount of tasks he has to do simultaneously:

1. to lead the woman,
2. to improvise the choreography,
3. to move his body,
4. to pay attention to the musicality, and on top of all of that –
5. to pay attention of the movements of the other couples and respect the ronda.

• It is like you give a person who never juggled 5 balls and tell him ‘now juggle’. It is hard and frustrating experience.

Every one, or all, of those mentioned tasks can be problem for him and should be learned. Despite of this, as I said, the most of the male dancers persist and learn those things with more or less success and they become tango dancers. In my experience when male dancers start dancing tango, there is a bigger chance they will stick to it (than it is for the female dancers) – maybe because of the bigger investment in time and effort they make in this initial phase.

• Leaders may progress more slowly through the earlier levels primarily because they are learning their own role and the followers’ role as well.

Followers may progress more quickly through the earlier levels. However, the gap between leaders and followers disappears in later levels as skilled followers learn to follow a wide variety of leaders with different styles.

Patience is helpful regardless of level. Leader challenges: Thinking from a followers’ perspective, remembering to bring your partner along. Follower challenges: Anticipation, reaction and response time, balance.

Thought 117 – The Female Lead – Tango Topics