Am I open or am I close?

It is one of the most discussed topic in Argentine Tango world because it touches dancer's personal style and personal feeling. Often time 'the embrace' is used to define one dancer's identity among the dancers.

Oh, look! he is an 'open embrace' dancer so he must be a nuevo dancer, or, he studied argentine tango in BA so he dances milonguero style and he must be a 'close embrace' guy.

I was once identified as the little milonguero when I danced in New York. But I also heard people refer me as the 'nuevo guy' who likes to dance to weird alternative tango music after I came back to Taiwan.

So what am I? I wonder myself.... I think I like dancing close because for me that's what Tango is all about. But I also like to open up when the music calls for it or when I know my follower is not comfortable with close embrace... and unfortunately, lots of followers in the Taipei Tango community don't really dance close embrace Tango.

Perhaps I have Tango identify crisis...