Bitterjug’s blog

3 Comments

1. Mark Says:

   I did go to Tango.

   I enjoyed it. It could be addictive, I can see how the inner dance-geek wants to learn all that control and communicative lead and follow.

   And as a night out it was good. I met some nice people in the beginners class, and then I ran away. I was going to go sit in the downstairs room where there were enough confident dancers to make a social scene. And a bar and good lighting. I changed back into my huge white sticky trainers first so I would have a good reason to decline invitations to dance. But even then I bailed out and ran away from the room once I’d ventured inside. It all seemed rather too intense and I didn’t want to be there.

   Part of it is fear, of course. I heard that one of the other beginners was asked to dance on his first night, I didn’t fancy that because it was clear to me already that if I had to wing it for a whole dance, I’d end up swinging it instead and that, for some reason, seemed more embarrassing to me, than just being crap. So I just didnt stay.

   April 1st, 2006 at 10:42 pm

2. natty Says:

   Poor dear. What happened? When did you become so timid?

   April 4th, 2006 at 6:44 pm

3. Mark Says:

   Timid? Not sure. Talked about this a bit to several people since it happened. I think I was used to being a bit special when I walk into a dance venue and here I Wanted to go in and hide. The tango folk who run that night need to give the beinngers somewhere safe to hid when they arrive. Walking into a dance thats going with nowhere to dump your coat and bag is a bit scary. We can all learn something from this I think.

   April 10th, 2006 at 12:40 pm