[Tango-L] Everyone's "one of the most respected and well-known dancers in BA

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 Talk is cheap. Watch them dance then dance with them for your own evaluation. 
 
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 From: runcarolinerun at hotmail.com
 To: curvasreales at yahoo.com.ar; tango-l at mit.edu
 Sent: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 9:38 AM
 Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Everyone's "one of the most respected and well-known dancers in BA
 
  I don't know if I agree with that line of thinking - if someone has to actually say they are the best instead of letting their dancing establish their reputation, it turns me off. I like confidence but not THAT much. 
 
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 From: Lucia <curvasreales at yahoo.com.ar> 
 To: Caroline Polack <runcarolinerun at hotmail.com>, tango-l at mit.edu 
 Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Everyone's "one of the most respected and well-known dancers in Buenos Aires" 
 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:47:47 +0000 (GMT) 
 
 Tango is foremost about attitude. If you don't think you are the best on the floor, you are not dancing true Tango, never mind how bad you are. 
 
 Lucia ;-> 
 
 
 Caroline Polack <runcarolinerun at hotmail.com> escribió: I've been doing a lot of browsing on the internet, of various tango schools 
 and teachers, in North America, and of course Argentina. Is it just me or is 
 every single teacher "one of the most respected and well-known tango dancers 
 in Buenos Aires"? 
 
 Says who? It's not possible for every single one of them to be "one of the 
 best" or there wouldn't any "best" at all. I would like to know who sets the 
 standards and who exactly is considering those teachers to be "one of the 
 best" or is there alot of self-proclamation going on? 
 
 I see it here too, braggadacio. I was at a Milonga hosted by my tango school 
 where I was approached by an older man who tried to persuade me to stop 
 taking lessons at that school and instead learn with him because he is one 
 of the "best" and had been travelling to Buenos Aires every year for the 
 last 20 years. Well, so did my tango teachers. I find that to be very bad 
 manners, to be approached by someone who is trying to convince others not to 
 take lessons from the teachers hosting the milonga. Competiton can sometimes 
 be a little too backstabbing for my liking. 
 
 So, I am thinking, how does making annual pilgrimages to Argentina 
 automatically make you the best? 
 
 What makes me laugh is when I come across a website that features just one 
 teacher and they write about themselves in the third person, with all those 
 effusive reviews of how they are one of the "best in Buenos Aires". 
 
 One thing I can say for sure is that generally speaking, most tango teachers 
 have no lack of self-confidence. 
 
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