He saw Altinai seated on a bench near the park. Her shoe bag near the corner and mobile phone in the hands. He seated near her opening a Coco Cola tin.
-What is happening, Altinai? Your boyfriend doesn’t answer to your sms? Saddest moment? Depression?
-I am not sure to continue your lessons…I am tired, I do not find reason to continue Tango…
-And why? What is the problem that block you on follow lessons? – He put the hand on her shoulder, like to protect her speech.
-I do not know, I feel no sense to continue if I am not able to follow what you say and show. I am not a dancer, it is difficult to follow you, to understand you, especially on what you expect from me, from us! It seems to me that I am a monkey and not a woman when I move. I have no partner for dancing and often you oblige me to dance with another woman. Now I am tired, and I don’t know what to do.
-Nobody arrives on this life able to dance, Athena. We discover to be able to dance after, really after years of listening music, looking people dance; or we become dancers just because the parents impose to younger to enter in the academies of dancing.
-You are not my parent and it seems you impose me what to do in all actions..
-In all? I am only your teacher for dancing, and if you do not want to continue stop it, you are not my wife or my mother or my sister. Probably you have not yet well understood that Tango is not only a dance, is a philosophy of life, a system to survive in bad moments, a love which permits to be loved without words but by dancing different positions, remembering good mood and so on..
-But why you want to teach this fucking dance as you like and not as should be in other schools!! Why you have to impose exercises, horrible music, personal moving to be changed and we do not want to change? You do not understand that we are here for our fun and your selfish!!
-To enjoy the fun moments together other people it is requested non commitments and no targets; if the funny moments are with a target as Tango dancing, it means that a lot of fun moments will arrive after understanding what to do during it.
Maestro left her and in front of other park visitors started to dance Tango without music, allowing to some of them to stop the walking for smiling at his behavior and imitate him in some moving. He took Altinai hands and started a small Milonga with her…
(from “The Master fo Tango” – copyright@Misha2014)
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