What if a dance is an intolerable ordeal?
Once you accept an invitation to dance, it is your responsibility to grin and bear it for the duration of the dance even if your partner tries your patience. Your options are to drop your partner before 3 dances are over (see when and how to stop), or to tolerate the situation with grace. Whatever you do, try not to frown too obviously and by all means don’t roll your eyes or make faces at your friends. Other potential partners will notice your rudeness and are sure to wonder if you do the same thing while dancing with them. Try closing your eyes or putting on your patient face until the ordeal is over. Separating work and tango fun at Yale A peculiar characteristic of our tango community is that you may find yourself in a tango situation with people that you have a professional relationship with, for example as fellow students, postdocs or staff in the same laboratory or department. Please be sensitive to this. People may find it awkward to be locked in a tango embrace with somebody t
