Woman Is Art

               In my last post I talked about the woman’s role in tango. I said she is the song as her partner hears it. I’d like to expound upon that subject further:

               Throughout history women have been the focus of mankind’s artist expression. Beginning with the first fertility symbol and continuing to this day with Taylor Swift. Men are endowed by Nature with a spellbinding attraction to the opposite sex.  

               Try to imagine the role this plays in tango. A man and woman are dancing; he hears the music and tries to convey to his partner what part of the melody moves him. All the while Nature has him under its spell.

               He asks her to move forward, side and to pivot; she does so. Seasoned by his infatuation, her motion appears to him as something that is beyond words; it is as if she can hear the music as he does and is moving in perfect synchronicity: she has become the song!

               He leads another back step. This time, for reasons unknown, she takes one step backward and then another to the side and forward. The rose-colored glasses are broken and his attraction to her dissipates. It happens so quickly that he is not able to hide his disappointment and that feeling is translated to her through the embrace. The dance is diminished.

               To men, women are art. We are programmed by Nature to see them this way. When the follower anticipates, she is moving to her own rhythm and loses a great gift that she has been given.

             

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