The differences between MJ and AT...

[David Bailey]

Not to be outdone... :)

MJ: is stationary (you stay in the same area)
AT: is progressive (you move around the floor in a line of dance)

[Gav]

MJ: Is easy to get started
AT: Is never easy in any way, shape or form
:D

[Lory]

MJ: the follow follows where her hand is lead

AT: the follow follows the mans chest (meaning, she strives to keep the centre of her chest, facing the centre of the mans chest) No arms/arm leads required

[philsmove]

MJ you are taught never to refuse a dance :nice:

AT you are taught How to refuse a dance :sick:

[Feelingpink]

AT has better shoes. :drool:

[Lory]

MJ: the dancers are mainly passing and opposing each other

AT: the dancers mainy move as one

[ducasi]

MJ: fun

AT: intense

[Ghost]

MJ: fun

AT: intense

So Jango's intense fun? :wink:

[JonD]

MJ = Party

AT = Passion

[David Bailey]

MJ: Wiggling Is Good, standing still is boring.
AT: Wiggling Is Evil, standing still is interpretation.

[Lou]

In Tango, apparently, they teach you walk

In MJ, Andy McGregor teaches you to march. :wink:

[Feelingpink]

From a follower's point of view:

AT: Your partner listens to you, then moves
MJ: Your partner moves, then may listen.

[Gav]

MJ - your first lesson teaches you that you can dance (kind of) :D
AT - your first lesson teaches you that you can't walk :sick:

[Feelingpink]

Origins:
MJ: Homeless
AT: (altogether now .... "Buenos Aires")

[SuzyQ]

MJ: Safe
AT: Dangerous

(during my first lesson the thing where you step through and flick your leg between the guys legs went a bit wrong - I have very long legs :what: )

[JonD]

AT: (altogether now .... "Buenos Aires")
Surely, it's the Rio de la Plata. Othewise how can I justify a trip to Montevideo? Julie would be horribly disappointed as she's pretty much exhausted the shoe buying possibilities in BsAs!

MJ = Led with the arms
AT = Led from the heart

[Gav]

MJ: Safe
AT: Dangerous

(during my first lesson the thing where you step through and flick your leg between the guys legs went a bit wrong - I have very long legs :what: )

:what: :what: :what: :sick: :sick: :sick:

[SuzyQ]

:what: :what: :what: :sick: :sick: :sick:

Yep ... those emoticons describe the look on his face quite well actually ...

He even stopped for a little while ... I think I may have seen a bit of a tear forming in his eye ...

[Feelingpink]

Surely, it's the Rio de la Plata. Othewise how can I justify a trip to Montevideo? Julie would be horribly disappointed as she's pretty much exhausted the possibilities in BsAs!

MJ = Led with the arms
AT = Led from the heartOkay - I bow to your superior knowledge. Was mostly thinking that at least tango had a home, whereas MJ comes from everywhere - a bit of a bar steward, in the traditional sense.

[JonD]

Okay - I bow to your superior knowledge
I only found out that it developed in both BsAs and Montevideo when reading the Wiki article about a week ago. Still, it provides more opportunities for mind broadening, wallet emptying travel and shoe shopping.


I think I may have seen a bit of a tear forming in his eye ...
Makes me glad that I've encountered ganchos in a lesson only once. Makes note not to learn ganchos with Julie but to find a much shorter follower.

MJ Leaders most commonly suffer injuries to the head
AT Leaders most commonly suffer injuries to the thigh junction

[MartinHarper]

Was mostly thinking that at least tango had a home, whereas MJ comes from everywhere.

If by "everywhere" you mean "France".

[Feelingpink]

If by "everywhere" you mean "France".:grin: Hmmm - was thinking more of its pedigree - nicking its moves from various styles such as salsa.

[David Bailey]

MJ: has hundreds of moves, some very complicated.
AT: has 4 steps - forwards, left, back, right.

[Lory]

AT: In At you will find books (like this) (http://www.amazon.de/Tango-Polit-Economy-Decolonization-Institutional/dp/0813316383) that have sentences like:

Tango is my womb and my tongue, a trench where I can shelter and resist the colonial invitations to universalism, a stubborn fatalist mood when technocrats and theorists offer optimistic and seriously revised versions of alternatives for the Third World, an opportunistic metaphor to talk about myself and my stories as a success' of the civilization-development-colonization of Amrica Latina, and a strategy to figure out through the history of the tango a hooked-up story of people like myself. :what:


MJ: In MJ you will find (from the CerocScotland home page )


"Learn to dance in one night"
Yes, 1 night is all it takes to teach you a few basic moves to get you dancing :clap: