"Ladies, please. He's not going to look down at your feet."
You want to dance with the best milonguero. And the best milonguero wants to dance with you - instinctively. He wants to dance, unconsciously knowing where you are at all times. He needs to know where you are, how you are, how you're feeling. The best milonguero will pick up the slightest tensions and messages, and respond. So be careful what your body says. And don't say what you don't mean.
At minimum, he needs to know exactly where your weight and your feet are.
And he's certainly not going to look down to see.
So make sure you're letting him know. Connect to him. So he feels the floor through your chest, your legs and your feet, as if they were his own chest, legs and feet. No slinky spring please. How can he feel you, your feet, the floor, if you're wobbling and bending, squidging and squishing, absorbing all the energy and tension in all the wrong ways?
It would be like trying to write with a pencil made of sponge.
And please, no crazy new unlead movements that come from nowhere. It would be like putting a finely tuned milongero's stethoscope onto some crazy radio speaker, ouch!
Learn from Gavito and Marcela. He doesn't just know where she is. He feels exactly how she is. Physically. Emotionally. Her history. The cries of her ancestors. This is the apotheosis of tango.
