tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post6335756537780296855..comments2024-03-21T05:39:38.636-04:00Comments on Tango Therapist: Do us a favor. Don't teach!Tango Therapisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-51423113868838690362012-08-29T19:29:48.744-04:002012-08-29T19:29:48.744-04:00Yeah Google translation is mostly on target, if wi...Yeah Google translation is mostly on target, if with a few rather peculiar exceptions (like thinking that tanda is "tandem" and "cute kitty" must be a Navy SEAL LOL). <br /><br />Naivete-wise, I think it cuts quite close to "integrity" in tango, although a tango cynic may also be brutally honest, too! I think I often play your therapy tricks to myself around the dance floor, sort of blinding myself to perceptions of snobbery or cliquishness, instilling a belief that we are all in the same boat / in the same benevolent secret society. Because to think that there are dangers of bias and rejection and contempt in the social circle of fellow tangueros, it would only make me bristle with reverse contempt, and that's not how I want to be at a milonga!<br /><br />PS: there's <a href="http://forum.gotango.ru/flame/topic311-210.html#p117313" rel="nofollow">another beautiful translation</a> from your blog in the same Russian forum - alas, not mine.MOCKBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150628026789690963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-31967167011350925062012-08-28T17:09:37.680-04:002012-08-28T17:09:37.680-04:00Mockba! Thanks for sending us the link. It was i...<br />Mockba! Thanks for sending us the link. It was interesting (via a translator) to read your Russian discussion page. You describe me as a bit naive but sincere! Maybe this is the best compliment I have ever received. (But I am not sure because I am naive.) :-)<br /><br /> My desire to avoid teaching had me invent a term I like: Master Beginner. Shouldn't a Master Beginner be "Naive but always sincere"? :-) <br /><br />The 7 things to remember are not Principals, and I have changed these "important things" over time. That, as I mentioned in the blogs final sentences, will have to be a future blog. The 7 important points to remember were to future self who has met himself in the older letter. In the updated thoughts on "being present" (also known as teacher), I am now telling myself, I still will not be a teacher. I will be present and if I am successful, I will not have people dancing like me, but dancing who they are. <br /><br />Truly you have given me a great idea about naivete and sincerity. I tell my "patients" as a "therapist" (something I never call them or myself) that in order to overcome PTSD, one must join in the delusions of the masses (that we are safe -- because being delusional is "normal"). So it is with being naive: Join me and be sincere too. But in this case it is NOT to be normal but be who you are which is very far from normal and very close to unique. Servus aus Deutschland! Mark Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-37704178871236687162012-08-27T19:04:46.637-04:002012-08-27T19:04:46.637-04:00Thanks, Mark! I posted a Russian translation of th...Thanks, Mark! I posted a Russian translation of the Seven Principles <a href="http://forum.gotango.ru/tango/topic16404-105.html#p118859" rel="nofollow">here</a> apropos a discussion about "true tango" in general, and sprinter's vs. long-distance runner's tango in particular.MOCKBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150628026789690963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-19830744143704962672012-08-19T05:58:19.007-04:002012-08-19T05:58:19.007-04:00Hola Ms. Hedgehog! So glad to see a comment from y...Hola Ms. Hedgehog! So glad to see a comment from you. Of course many are great teachers and SHOULD charge and SHOULD make a living. We can benefit from their teaching. But they also might consider using their talent to PROTECT the very thing they love -- tango. I perhaps am overstating for others, but the title was for myself. Teachers who try to make dancers who get a thrill of having the whole floor to themselves and the tango community as a captive audience do a great disservice to the future of tango. Any dance or music that becomes too complex will soon dwindle and die. Jazz did that. Again, perhaps I overstate, but I do see our tango communities as being fragile, easily destroyed in just a few generations. Make that years or even months. -- MarkTango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-32051824957500875252012-08-19T05:27:49.786-04:002012-08-19T05:27:49.786-04:00Yes, I think that's a nice, brief examination ...Yes, I think that's a nice, brief examination of the pitfalls of being a professional. <br /><br />It brings obligations, it has big dangers and disadvantages, and it takes preparation, thought, and the right sort of personality to fulfil the obligations and overcome the dangers and disadvantages. I see different people struggling with each of the things on your list - which is most difficult varies.<br /><br />Of course that assumes that the person still wants to be a good social dancer and has that as a real personal priority, which is not the case for everyone. For some it really is just a profession. For them the tradeoffs are different.<br /><br />I suppose all professions have their hazards - mine has rounded shoulders and eye strain.msHedgehoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719152265628932122noreply@blogger.com