Floor Craft 101:  One of the many tango fundamentals inherent to good dancing.  Every Tango community has to address this issue and each community has their own revised version.  New contributor to Tango Corazon, Lyn Johnson, writes Vancouver Island Tango's version of Floor Craft 101. Argentines have been dancing Tango for more than a century.  This has given them time to figure out what works and what doesn't in a social dance environment.  We  need  to  heed  their  ways  if  we  want to  enjoy  ourselves! After only a few Tango lessons, most beginners know that couples move counter clockwise around the dance floor and stay in a line of dance.  Easier said than done! Floor craft is challenging. It takes some time and experience to get good at crafting your dance. And since Argentine Tango is always growing, there will always be people learning their floor craft as they go. It helps to have guidelines to follow ... rules of the road, so to speak.  Traffic travels in lanes and dancers stay in their lanes. The experienced dancers typically dance in the outside lane and beginners move to the inside. DANCE WITH THE ROOM Endeavour to dance with an awareness of all of the dancers around you.  Do not allow gaps in the line-of-dance in front of you to form as this will cause a pileup of dancers behind you. When the music begins, start dancing when the majority of other dancers do. DON'T MONOPOLIZE THE SPACE Adjust your dancing