In the world of dance, more women and fewer men have always been a more common phenomenon, one of the more direct reasons is that girls are generally more sensitive to physical limbs than boys, and their sensitivity to music is better than that of boys, so girls can enjoy fun faster in dance, so the retention rate will be higher than that of boys.
The phenomenon of more women and fewer men is not a big problem for solo dance (such as ballet, street dance, jazz, modern dance, etc.), and this phenomenon is a never-too-big hurdle for double dance. The market size of double dance is basically limited by the number of boys, the number of boys can not go up, and the number of girls is useless.
In the double dance, the Argentine tango dance is a niche dance, there are many reasons for the minority, but a large part of the reason is because the number of boys retained is scarce, which directly leads to the inability of the tango dance crowd to grow rapidly, and has maintained the market reputation of "small and beautiful".
So why is the number of boys in Argentine tango dance particularly rare? Why is the retention rate much lower than that of other dances? Many people will say that it is because the tango itself is more difficult for men, there are more things to consider, their own movements, girls' movements, dance lines, musicality...
But any kind of learning is from scratch, will encounter difficulties, I believe that many boys on the road of life will overcome more difficulties than tango dance, then how to retreat in dance.
After so many years of tango teaching, I finally found the invisible reason behind the difficulty of showing it, that is, "difficult is not enough for boys to retreat, but being disliked is the most difficult hurdle for boys."
A very interesting feature of Argentine tango is that the learning paths of boys and girls (Leader and follower) are different. Especially in the beginning, it was a difficult challenge for junior boys, and it was relatively easy for junior girls.
Therefore, in general, boys and girls who come in the same class to study, girls in the primary stage generally improve faster than boys. When this phenomenon occurs, girls will obviously feel the difference between the lead and the upper school boy and the lead of the same class, thus obviously producing a different pleasure.
Imagine if you have ever seen such a situation, when the same girl and junior boy jump, full of disgust and impatience, and when jumping with senior boys, full of joy and excitement, after the dance, do not forget to share with others "that boy brought a good Oh".
This kind of differential treatment, the boys who have just started to learn tango can actually feel that the frustration that the boys suffered at this time is not from the difficulty of dancing, but from the gap in the soul, spending money is to entertain and make themselves happy, but they did not expect to be abandoned, why bitter.
"Boys have tears and don't flick", this sentence has always made us girls feel that boys are born stronger than us, that is, they can be frustrated than us girls. However, in the world of Argentine tango, life is so real, and many of the most reasonable sayings in life are disintegrated in this way when they reach the tango...
Therefore, the boys who have a weaker heart will not come again before they have even finished the zero-based class. And those boys who have a stronger heart to bear the pressure all the way, until they become the boys of the senior class, at this time, even if the dance steps are complicated and difficult, they will not easily leave, because there are a large number of teachers and sisters waiting behind them to dance.
This is also the Argentine tango community has been circulating such a sentence "iron man, flowing water woman", when the boy can carry through the beginning of the difficult years, it will go all the way smoother, easy not to give up, the heart feels better and better, become the mainstay.
So at the end of the article, I would like to share two sentences with men and women who are enjoying or struggling with Argentine tango.
To boys
"Bear with the sea and the sky, the darkness before the dawn is the darkest, and the past is a bright road."
To girls
"Give the dance partners around you a little more patience and understanding, tango is the common growth of two people, don't look down on the master"