Team TangoMoose takes to the sky
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Our flight left on time - Jim C, Chris and I had lot’s of time to sit in the Jetport’s Shipyard brewpub, grab lunch and chat. Our talk was wide-ranging; personalities (of course), tango, politics and old T.V shows.
The destination is LaGuardia Airport, the occasion is the Men’s Night and Graduation weekend for Mama Gena’s School of (or is it “for”?) the Womanly Arts.
It’s a pretty earthy approach to practical feminist action that concentrates on community building, self-actualization (and knowledge) and a decided focus on sensuality and recovery of a woman’s real identity and value.
I’m 100% behind this - I’m also still not quite sure how “Men’s Night” fits into all of this except to intuit (with my Native American intuition - my “male intuition” doesn’t seem to cover this) that Mama Gena wants her “Sister-Goddesses” to mix it up with males (and other significants) in the most direct way possible….
…. and in this case “direct” means Argentine Tango.
Apparently we’re going to dance as direct partners. Argentine Tango is improvised - a leader provides the general direction and the follower goes there - but in her own time and with her own style, which the leader (usually a guy) has to follow and adapt to, or he doesn’t get any dances during the course of the evening.
One of the things I love most about Tango is the direct communication you have to develop with your partner - you have to pay attention and hear how she likes to dance, where and when she likes to dance, seriously - you have to listen.
So along with other delights of travel to America’s largest urban area I’m going to go meet some new friends (hopefully friends) and listen to them.
Maybe hear myself better too.
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