[Tango-L] Definition of Social Dancing

[Euroking@aol.com]

I guess there is extra ammunition out there because people seem to be quick  
to shoot the messenger, or confuse the point.  
 
Stephen said "My identification of festivals known for emphasizing social  
dancing was 
simply intended to refer to those festivals that emphasize  milongas over 
classes--as is underscored by the heavy reliance on  instructors who lack 
performance credentials to lift them to  prominence,  (Some of the nuevo 
and nuevo-milonguero festivals don't  neatly fit such classification.)  Of 
course, the people organizing the  events that emphasize affordable dancing 
over instruction are marketing  their events as being for social dancing. "
 
Maybe I read this wrong, but I did not see a attempt to generally divide  
festivals between social and stage, but to delineate between those that had more  
concentration on the dancing rather than the teaching/workshop side. Nothing  
more.
 
I view Stephen's list as just that a list and a valuable service. I don't  
view it as an authorative judgement on quality, nor do I view it as a marketing  
effort on his part.  Marketing is in the hands of the organizer. So thank  
you Stephen.
 
Just some thoughts,
 
Bill in Seattle
 




In a message dated 6/15/2006 1:55:37 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
white95r at hotmail.com writes:

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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