[Tango-L] Where to Dance in Bs As if You're from NYC?

[Alberto Gesualdi]

The question is interesting, because it could be made a comparison as what do we mean with "Bs As" and what do we mean with "NYC"
   
  Both are references to cities that really does not exist .
   
  Bs As could be seen as a " line crossing the horizon" as french architect Le Corbusier described it when arrived by ship to riverport .
  Also as something that is a sorrounding scarcely  green fields with increasingly urban spots as well as the airplane takes their final landing to Ezeiza airport .
  Once foot is being set at destination within town , highways , streets, hotels , more streets, people here and there , traffic chaos , honks , newspaper vendors shouting, pneumatic hammers hitting the tarmac , and maybe a tango at loudspeakers, out from music stores longing for customers. Smells of bakery, meat, vegetables, rice ,smoke from the coffees at the cafeterias and out of the lungs of smoking coffee sippers. People talking , reading newspapers, books, walking with mp3 pods , on rollers , skateboard, bycicyles, small motorbikes called"deliveries" carrying pizza,. icecreams, medical prescriptions, whatever could be confined into the rear side box .
   
  NYC could be seen as .... a line of skycrapers if you came to Manhattan borough by  road. Or a seaport in a island if you came by ship. Or sea arriving to a beach arriving to a huge airport (JFK) or  a smaller friendly one (La Guardia).
  Once foot is set at destination, copy all that has been said in the previous paragraph, at least for Manhattan .
  Staten island looks more alike our Vicente Lopez NE great buenos aires area near the Rio de la plata , without the ferries of Port Authority 
  Bronx could be .....  Like a ride in Tren de la costa from stations Borges to San Isidro, stepping down and making some walking .
  Queens could be ... like some parts of Belgrano and/or Villa Urquiza
  Harlem ... like Dock Sud, but there are differences , afroamerican people on dock sud is from Cabo Verde mostly , and they have been arriving for the past 30 years only , massively.
  Brooklyn could be like ..villa del parque and/or villa devoto.
   
   
  So, if you are from NYC , you will find yourself in Bs As as home, totally deja vu effect :)
   
  Where to dance is not a demanding question finally.
   
  In Alice in Wonderland tale, while Alice is looking for a way out , asks to the Cheshire cat ( that is quite alike our president Kirchner, no one knows while he is smiling always) for directions , quote "
   
    'Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'

'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.

'I don't much care where-' said Alice.

'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

   
  unquote
   
  warm regards
  alberto gesualdi
  buenos aires

Mallpasso at aol.com escribió:
  Because New Yorkers think they're the center of the tango universe?.... ;-)

El Bandido de Tango



In a message dated 8/8/2006 06:36:04 Pacific Daylight Time, 
joanneprochaska at aol.com writes:
Dear Neil,
Why on earth would one want to travel all that way and take precious vacation 
days, only to "dance like they do back home"? 
Joanne Pogros
Cleveland, Ohio


-----Original Message-----
From: neil.liveakos at gmail.com
To: tango-l at mit.edu
Sent: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 8:15 PM
Subject: [Tango-L] Where to Dance in Bs As if You're from NYC?


Hola The List,

This new thread is fodder for my blog, so if you reply I may blog your
response.

My hypothetical question is . . .

"If a Tango Dancer from New York City goes to Buenos Aires and wants
to dance in a Milonga where they can dance just like they dance back
home, where would they go?"
Gracias,

Neil Liveakos
http://milonga.us
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