"When you are not dancing Tango for a while, what would you lose?"
Think about it and come up an answer. I'll wait.
This is not a trick question or anything. But your answer reveal something about yourself.
If you list human relationship-kind of answer, like connection, sense of belonging to community, unity to partner, friendship, wine and fun time in milonga, etc, these are the personal meaning you find in the dance. You may be on the "feelie", or Sensing-Feeling side.
If your answer is more physical or technical, such as balance, posture, figure X or Y, they represent the way you find meaning in the dance. You may be on the "techie", or Thinking side.
It is not bad or anything. You would have to be at least at intermediate level to be able to talk about techniques, and I'd expect your dance level may be higher than those who grasp a dance only from emotional meaning to them.
Poets and dancers are not exactly the same people. Like musicians, dancers (or so-called "real dancers") carry highly technical requirements.
You need to align what you think, what you say, and what you do, to be most effective and live your life truthfully.
Dance techniques enable you to "do" the dance. Not only what you think or say. Bluntly put, a singer is hardly a singer without a voice. A dancer is hardly a dancer without physically presenting beauty of the dance.
For dance contests and auditions, how you dance here and now is what you got here and now. I like that kind of simplicity.
BTW, tomorrow Tuesday is midterm election day in the US.
I used to think, if your inner self (religious belief, spirituality, political good intention or malice, etc) can be physically seen like watching your dance, it would have been much easier.
