Ten Differences Between MJ and AT

Modern                                            Jive                                                                 
Argentine
Tango 
Is stationary (you stay in the same area) Is progressive (you move around the floor in a line of dance)
Is easy to get started Is never easy in any way, shape or form
The follow follows where her hand is led The follow follows the mans chest
You are taught never to refuse a dance You are taught how to refuse a dance
 The dancers are mainly passing and opposing each otherThe dancers mainy move as one
Fun PartyIntense Passion
Your first lesson teaches you that you can dance (kind of)Your first lesson teaches you that you can't walk
 Led with the arms Led from the heart
 Leaders most commonly suffer injuries to the head Leaders most commonly suffer injuries to the thigh junction
 In MJ you find sentences like:
"Learn to dance in one night" - Yes, 1 night is all it takes to teach you a few basic moves to get you dancing
 In AT you find sentences like:
Tango is my womb and my tongue, a trench where I can shelter and resist the colonial invitations to universalism, a stubborn fatalist mood when technocrats and theorists offer optimistic and seriously revised versions of alternatives for the Third World, an opportunistic metaphor to talk about myself and my stories as a success' of the civilization-development-colonization of Amrica Latina, and a strategy to figure out through the history of the tango a hooked-up story of people like myself.