| He learned how to
walk forwards, backwards, and to either
side using steps that were around half,
full and one and a half times his normal
walking step. He
learned something about ochos, both
forward and backward, and heard the more
advanced students talk about a giro.
He
learned that knowing how to do these
things was one thing; being able to
execute them gracefully in a lesson, let
alone with a prtner throughout a dance,
was something entirely different.
Most
of all he watched, enthralled, the
dancers at La Tertulia as they
gathered from around Spain and, more
importantly, from Argentina, for the
festival. He was fascinated by the leg play between
couples as they danced; their bodies
appearing to become one, suspended
somehow so their four legs were free to
intertwine at will. There was a large
poster advertising the Granada festival -
their 11th - in La Tertulia amongst lots
of Tango memorabilia.
He
had come, that first time, with a Dance
Holidays group
from England to learn more about this
seductive dance which he had never even
seen before. All of the party, apart from
him, seemed to know something about the
dance; some were quite expert and
graceful he was discovering.
Several
danced on La Tertulia's tiny,
tiled, dance floor; the girls hoping some
local Tanguero would ask them to dance so
they could really show what they could
do.
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