Fear of joining a free workshop tango nuevo, resulting in only one participant, learning to walk my legs in a matter of minutes but invited into imitating salsa steps.
Similar like how we are being taught by our system to imitate our idols, masters, teachers, instructors, learning to do an instant trick, rather than developing our own qualities and style.
Eventually it started raining again so when we moved to start dancing under the bridge, like before, my speaker was exchanged with another, without asking, stopped the music and warned everyone that someone told him that we could be fined by the police, gathering under the bridge.
Asking around several salsa dancers seemed to agree in following this fear, acknowledging that they certainly weren’t dancing in public to make a statement, but rather played safe by following orders and letting themselves be vaccinated.
This is exactly what I am trying to avoid dancing tango.
Why tango?
Being oppressed by an education system of (dance) lessons that teaches us to dance to the tune of those in power if we dutifully follow the directions.
Higher education teaches to adopt and pass on instructions, based on information from (government) approved sources.
Lower education teaches to follow instructions, based on information from (government) approved sources.
Both learn to take responsibility for only that which can be transferred to the source.
Nobody needs to know where these sources base their knowledge on.
This is probably the reason that especially people who have always resisted authority and hierarchy, already realized from the beginning, that the regulations surrounding this so-called pandemic are wrong.
To me this seems like a unique moment in history to see, how easily humanity can voluntarily surrender itself to the power of a handful of executors of this system.
However, if we start dancing tango nuevo, we not only fulfill our need for social contact and movement, but we also immediately free ourselves from the rules, instructions and other demands that we are used to, and we develop our independent thinking and consciousness.
Specially when we dance in public, without any official organizers or costs involved.
Although also tango has been controlled with rules and traditions, tango nuevo in particular, is the only dance I know, that allows you to literally form 1 body on 4 legs on an equal level.
Not by both walking similar steps together, while one leads, but by a "follower" making the body movement of the "leader" move her feet.
On an equal level because 1 takes responsibility for connection and transfer of movement, while the other takes responsibility for creating this movement, in harmony with the partner, the music and the other dancers.
Everyone can invite each other and no one has to wait for an official arrangement.
By simply moving to music that way, everyone develops their own style, learning from each other, which role suits us best.
Automatically, step by step, a vocabulary of movements with which we can communicate, will arise.
If you move in order to make a step and I let your upper-body movement, move my upper-body, your upper-body will move my leg as well.
If you learn to use your upper-body movement, to move my leg into a step, we can literally form 1 body on 4 legs, if I provide you with the connection needed for that.
Of course that can also be done the other way around if I lead you.
This way we can dance with each other right from the start and we all develop our own style.
You don't believe it can be that simple?
Give it a try!
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