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

[Tom Stermitz]

Obviously, a promoter needs to get students to expensive workshops,  
so there is an escalation of hype.

For myself, I find I can't base my opinion on a teacher from the  
advertising.


Quality, Quantity and Community Building.

Evidence of good teaching:
  - How do their students dance?
  - What is the teachers retention ability (short & long-term)?
  - Do they graduate their students to the wider community?

A lot of traveling teachers blow through town without having much of  
an impact on the local community. Some of them come repeatedly like  
gentle Summer breezes.



On Aug 3, 2006, at 10:47 AM, mallpasso at aol.com wrote:

>
>  Talk is cheap. Watch them dance then dance with them for your own  
> evaluation.
>
>  El Bandido de Tango
>
> ...
>  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?