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A solution to the great dance equation
Once at a milonga, I saw a very good dancer sitting out the dances on a couch in the lobby. "Why aren't you dancing?" I asked him. "I just had a really great tanda, and now I am just sitting" he answered. This is a common situation dancers face - what to do after a really great dance. I can say that I had tried his approach in the past; but I did not find that it provided a satisfactory solution to the problem.
That night, I had a chance to dance with a beautiful lady whom I had been watching for ages. When I first started out, I saw her dancing in DC, but did not have the skills at the time to ask her to dance. That night, at last, I got my chance. I knew I could not surprise her with anything, since she had danced with the best. But I had a great dance, a really, really great dance, and I think, if one person has a great dance, then probably the other person was not suffering too badly, and I was happy. After the tanda was over I sat down and watched the dancers; I was feeling great, but something was missing. The situation had not been resolved, somehow. After a time I saw that a woman was looking at me from a few tables down; we smiled at each other and went to the floor. She was much older and I could tell by the way she dressed she had not been dancing long; but she was eager, and wise, and I had a very nice time. And then after the tanda when I sat down, I had the additional intellectual satisfaction of having solved my dance equation: after having a great dance with a master, the answer is to dance with a beginner. QED.
That night, I had a chance to dance with a beautiful lady whom I had been watching for ages. When I first started out, I saw her dancing in DC, but did not have the skills at the time to ask her to dance. That night, at last, I got my chance. I knew I could not surprise her with anything, since she had danced with the best. But I had a great dance, a really, really great dance, and I think, if one person has a great dance, then probably the other person was not suffering too badly, and I was happy. After the tanda was over I sat down and watched the dancers; I was feeling great, but something was missing. The situation had not been resolved, somehow. After a time I saw that a woman was looking at me from a few tables down; we smiled at each other and went to the floor. She was much older and I could tell by the way she dressed she had not been dancing long; but she was eager, and wise, and I had a very nice time. And then after the tanda when I sat down, I had the additional intellectual satisfaction of having solved my dance equation: after having a great dance with a master, the answer is to dance with a beginner. QED.