http://singletango.com/246/dance-argentine-tango/el-cabaceo-argentine-tango/ Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:06:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://singletango.com/246/dance-argentine-tango/el-cabaceo-argentine-tango/comment-page-1/#comment-12 cherie Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:33:24 +0000 http://singletango.com/?p=246#comment-12 I totally agree with your first two paragraphs. But then we differ. The cabeceo is for the benefit of both men and women. And it's not for picking the very "best dancers" to dance with, but for who YOU want to dance with for whatever reason. And as Joli pointed out, it's for the men as well as the women. Who says it's not about having fun? It's more fun to dance with someone who you want to dance with. The cabeceo is not an easier way to reject someone, but a more civilized system of selecting partners, of "choosing someone." The Argentines invented tango and know how to behave in milongas; after all, they've been perfecting it for 150 years. Why should Americans, or anybody else, try to reinvent the wheel? I totally agree with your first two paragraphs.
But then we differ.
The cabeceo is for the benefit of both men and women. And it’s not for picking the very “best dancers” to dance with, but for who YOU want to dance with for whatever reason. And as Joli pointed out, it’s for the men as well as the women.
Who says it’s not about having fun? It’s more fun to dance with someone who you want to dance with.
The cabeceo is not an easier way to reject someone, but a more civilized system of selecting partners, of “choosing someone.” The Argentines invented tango and know how to behave in milongas; after all, they’ve been perfecting it for 150 years.
Why should Americans, or anybody else, try to reinvent the wheel?

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