Hi Hermank just seen your post on ballroom dancing 3 months ago. I had to give up 8 years ago as the old knees could not cope. I had an excellent dance partnership which lasted 10 years and we both enjoyed the same dances. But I had been dancing for 25 years, having learnt late in life.
Ballroom and Latin mainly but we also went to Milongas and danced the Argentinian way, most only think of the Tango, which we often got asked to dance for others to watch.
But the other Argentine dances like the Milongas (a quickstep) and the Tango Waltz were lovely dances and I do miss doing them. It is amazing how many different dances you learn on the way.
I remember going dancing in France, they are all crap dancers there!!!!! Same old steps whatever the music, wherever you went. But I have had Tango lessons in Paris, do not speak French so not so easy to follow. When I asked in terrible French for an explanation the lady teacher spoke in perfect English in reply.
We did do a demonstration of The Tango at the Wine museum in London when they were hosting an Argentine wine event, my partner was in the wine business herself.
The nice thing is that dancing couples were mixed and I have danced with another man, he was a good dancer (also a teacher) it is quite different.
The oddest time was when I was on holiday with our son on a converted (and extended) traditional fishing boat. It was off the coast of Phuket in the Andaman sea. I was chatting with a young lady who was engaged to another passenger and she was telling me that he kept putting off dancing lessons for their wedding. We talked about dances and she mentioned how much she liked the Argentine tango.
I said would she like a lesson? At this point she would have married me for the dancing!
So I showed her 2 or 3 steps and she was a natural, we got the captain to find some tango music the chairs and tables were pushed back and we danced for about half an hour. The "intended" was not a happy bunny, he was a surgeon and was more interested in the size of his camera. We were on a dive boat just 12 of us and 14 crew, luxury! I felt sorry for his next patient! (and his fiancee!).
There is no dance like an Argentine Tango!
Roy
Ballroom and Latin mainly but we also went to Milongas and danced the Argentinian way, most only think of the Tango, which we often got asked to dance for others to watch.
But the other Argentine dances like the Milongas (a quickstep) and the Tango Waltz were lovely dances and I do miss doing them. It is amazing how many different dances you learn on the way.
I remember going dancing in France, they are all crap dancers there!!!!! Same old steps whatever the music, wherever you went. But I have had Tango lessons in Paris, do not speak French so not so easy to follow. When I asked in terrible French for an explanation the lady teacher spoke in perfect English in reply.
We did do a demonstration of The Tango at the Wine museum in London when they were hosting an Argentine wine event, my partner was in the wine business herself.
The nice thing is that dancing couples were mixed and I have danced with another man, he was a good dancer (also a teacher) it is quite different.
The oddest time was when I was on holiday with our son on a converted (and extended) traditional fishing boat. It was off the coast of Phuket in the Andaman sea. I was chatting with a young lady who was engaged to another passenger and she was telling me that he kept putting off dancing lessons for their wedding. We talked about dances and she mentioned how much she liked the Argentine tango.
I said would she like a lesson? At this point she would have married me for the dancing!
So I showed her 2 or 3 steps and she was a natural, we got the captain to find some tango music the chairs and tables were pushed back and we danced for about half an hour. The "intended" was not a happy bunny, he was a surgeon and was more interested in the size of his camera. We were on a dive boat just 12 of us and 14 crew, luxury! I felt sorry for his next patient! (and his fiancee!).
There is no dance like an Argentine Tango!
Roy
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