[Tango-L] Finnish Tango

[Christian Lüthen]

1.
The germans do not have the tango culture like the Finns! 

2. 
Why should the Finns adopt to something a war-bringing country gives them?

3.
Finnish culture has a couple of connecting points / resemblance with the german culture 
[both are *very* systematic countries, indeed ;-) ] ... but to force to search a connection again 
with war-time germany ...
... to be friendly I will just shake my head!!! [allthough I am very much not amused!]

4.
Have you ever seen Finnish Tango? I mean: live, in front of you? Being *within* it, not from 
the distance, not during any show-performance in another country than Finland?

5.
"Tangomarkkinat in Seinäjoki" is the major tango event in Finland each year, but it is not only Tango! 
Finland has a very strong general dancing culture with a lot of other "traditional" finnish and non-finnish dances , 
which are also danced during the festival, allthough during this festival Tango is the most important feature.


Nonsense does not get more sense just by repeativly posting it twice in about an hour!!! 


On 2 Jun 2006 at 12:04, steve pastor wrote:

and again on 

On 2 Jun 2006 at 13:07, steve pastor wrote:


Chirstian 
(German), written with cross-reading of a Finnish tango expert (Argentine and Finnish 
Tango!)

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Steves posting: 


> Finnish Tango is certainly a tangent to Argentine Tango, but I guess I'm not the only
>    one interested in this topic. So here goes.
>    
>   A couple of tango friends have gone to Tangomarkkinat the past couple of years. I
>    believe they are just one of the sources from which I have heard that the Germans 
>   were largely responsible for the character of Finnish Tango. This is of course contrary 
>   to recent posts, some of which cite Finns as sources.
>    
>   The Tangomarkkinat web page states that "The first Finnish tangos, classics since 
>   their birth, date back to the 1930s. Both the form and the spirit of tango in the Finnish 
>   manner were crystallized during the Second World War."
>    
>   Here is a quote from http://worldwar2database.com/html/finland.htm "Britain declared
>    war on Finland on December 6, 1941. The United States, while recognizing that 
>   Finland was not an ally, seized Finnish ships.  Throughout the war, German planes 
>   attacked Murmansk and Archangel from Finnish airfields. German and Soviet units 
>   engaged frequently in Finland.  Finland was clearly on the side of the Axis."
>    
>   I have no hidden agenda here. I would, however, like to have my facts straight. So, were the Germans important in determining the character of Finnish Tango?
>