What Would Jackie Do … in Tango?

When you read a Chinese fortune cookie, and you append the words “in bed,” you get something hilarious and possibly true.

What would happen if I added "in tango" to the lessons of my new self-help book: What Would Jackie Do?

If there's one thing I've learned, it is this: Jackie was all about protecting herself.

How would that play out in tango?

What Would Jackie Do ... in Tango?

• She would take private lessons.
• She would practice in private with a hand-picked partner.
• She would host private parties.
• She would attend top-tier milonga.
• She would always have an escort.
• She would refuse unsuitable partners.
• She would dance with men she had earmarked for her purposes.
• She would strike a balance with understated elegance and a touch of flash-flesh-faux.
• She would take pains never to be a commodity, an Interchangeable Woman.
  

Jackie was all about protecting herself.

We may not have much in common, after all.