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Stations of the the Well Mannered Milonguero

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Background:
To increase the awareness and adherence to good etiquette and navigation rules, several years ago I created the Navigation and Etiquette Survey. From the 500 suggestions from over 100 respondents, I weighted, compiled and condensed the suggestions to come up with the following Navigation & Etiquette Guidelines:

  1. Always move forward in line of dance.
  2. Stay in your lane.
  3. Move up and fill gap in front of you.
  4. Use cabeceo and accept refusals.
  5. Dance small figures.
  6. Eyes up and avoid collisions.
  7. Seek permission to enter the floor.
  8. No teaching, criticizing or loud talking.
  9. Clear the floor during the cortina.
  10. Apologize regardless of who’s at fault.
  11. Center is for beginners–good dancers stay in outside lanes.
  12. Dress appropriately and have good hygiene. 

The next step was to think of a way to incorporate/instill/enforce/encourage tangueros to actually abide by and follow these guidelines. Towards this end, the Victoria Randlett and I came up with the following:

Stations of the Well Mannered Milonguero (please give me your comments below):

  1. Upon entering the ballroom, each dancer will receive a pocket-size copy of the Navigation & Etiquette Guidelines.
  2. Each tanda will be dedicated to observing specifically one of these rules.
  3. The specific rule being focused on will we be posted on a different column that surrounds the ballroom.
  4. Each dancer is asked to be especially cognizant of and follow the featured rule.
  5. Finally–and this may be the most difficult part of all because many times we’re not aware of breaking the rules and/or we’re resistant to others correcting us–each dancer will be asked to gently, and in a respectful manner remind their partner and/or fellow tanguero to respect the specific rules being emphasized.

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