George and Jairelbhi Furlong are professional Argentine Tango instructors based in Dallas. Martha and David Wells invited them to have workshops on 10/23/2016 weekend in OKC. Together with Friday and Saturday milonga, the weekend was a Tango weekend.
In addition to the workshops on Sunday, I booked a private lesson slot and had an interview with George on how they work on Stage Tango. They are one of few professional dancers who actively perform Argentine Tango on stage, as well as directing their performance group for stage tango performance. They have unique and advanced knowledge on Stage Argentine Tango as specialists.
It is a pleasure to work with good professionals, because they know their stuff.
I asked about 15-18 questions, depending on how you count, on performing Stage Tango. For example, "how do you define the difference between Stage Tango and Social Tango?"
His answers were well-articulated and clear-cut, which is only possible by people with deep experience and thoughts on the subject.
At the same time, I was under impression that "smart people think alike". I have previous interview results from other instructors and dance professionals on Stage dance. What they said have a lot in common.
Previously I read a book titled "How rich people think" by Steve Siebold. The book was about ideas and beliefs rich people have in common about money and moneymaking. The author extracted the ideas and beliefs from interviews with many rich and successful people.
I was assuming that by interviewing many Stage dancers, a common view and work ethics would emerge. They have.
Thanks to the shared answers, I am confident that the concept and contents of this new book project on Stage Tango are on target. I am very happy about it.
Now, I got to work on the writing.
Big thank you for George and Jairelbhi.
[10/23/2016 Workshops for Sacada, Colgada, etc]
[Science]
Today (10/24) we had a meeting with researchers working on public health and health disparity issues. We are attempting to launch an inter/intra-programmatic project that aims at (eventually) improving public health. The project might become a shortcut and a bridge between our lab research and their public health aspects. I am looking forward to further develop this project.
