[Tango-L] Definition of Social Dancing

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I've been in the tango scene for many years and I've never been to any 
"festival" or milonga dedicated to stage dancing. I think it's disingenous 
at best to label some milongas or tango events as "social" and not others. 
It's like saying here is a list of people, those with asterisks next to them 
are really nice and welcome social dancing, there are also others......

I know that there are some milongas usually populated by few inexperienced 
dancers, where the LOD is not strictly followed and the style of dance could 
be called "stage dancing". These are places where there are no experienced 
teachers and the people simply don't know how to make milongas, etc. From my 
experience of all the tango events I've attended all over the world, there 
are no "stage tango" or non-social milongas. All the festivals or milongas 
I've ever been to were events where people danced (or tried to dance) 
socially to tango music (except for the alternative milongas where non-tango 
muisc is played).

Regards,

Manuel




>From: "Caroline Polack" <runcarolinerun at hotmail.com>
>To: tango-l at mit.edu
>Subject: [Tango-L] Definition of Social Dancing
>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:24:12 -0400
>
>It just simply means non-stage tango, in other words, milongas. Milongas, 
>by definition means social gathering of tango dancers.
>
>Partisan, non-partisan, tomato, tomahto. A list of festivals is just a list 
>of festivals, asterisks or not. You want to know more about a particular 
>festival? Go google it.
>
>You want to know if Robin is dj-ing? Go ask him. Surely he must have a 
>schedule that you can take a peek at.
>
>Sometimes I wonder if some people just like making simple things 
>complicated.
>
>Caroline
>
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