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 other | The dancers mainy move as one |
| Fun Party | Intense 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. |