[Tango-L] Social dancing

[Tom Stermitz]

On Jul 14, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Sergio Vandekier wrote:
> ...
> I remember going to the Milonga of Mimi and Francisco Santapa at  
> Salon Canning (probably early 1990s). Francisco always well dressed  
> with tie and coat dances a very elegant form of salon tango. He  
> told me "I do not allow ganchos in my milonga" then I danced with  
> Mimi without ganchos but when Amy brought him to teach in Detroit,  
> she told him that people there liked to dance with all the  
> firuletes and he taught tango with firuletes ganchos included.


This seems to be a common pattern. Bring up an expert tango dancer,  
then tell them to teach something different from what they actually  
do socially.

Was this the organizers desire, or the students?


Tom Stermitz
http://www.tango.org