Limerick Tango

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When I was a younger dancer and being taught sequences I had a terrible habit of just going blank. This was because I knew what the sequence involved and thought I could let my mind wander. To use an example that involves bringing her to the cross and then lead something else. I would start off for the cross, let my mind wander, then suddenly find her in the cross wondering what it was I was to do next.

Because I avoid sequences as much as possible these days blanks haven’t been a problem. Until now. Now that I have two routines to rehearse the blanks are back.

Just another reason that I’m unlikely to do a rehearsed tango performance ever again.

With my involvement in Limerick does strictly come dancing I have had to do something that I haven’t before and that is rehearse.

And I really, really, don’t like it.

The spontaneity of tango means that I never know what I’m about to do next. I can go with the flow of the music and the floor.

Crafting a routine, however, is the inverse of that. All the creativity and spontaneity is at the start of the process and then gets locked out. I’m sure it might be different if both my partners and I were dancers but that’s not the case and the situation calls for a predetermined routine.