[Tango-L] Social tango definition

Derik Rawson rawsonweb at yahoo.com
Mon May 1 17:04:55 EDT 2006


Dear Sergo:

Your definition of social tango sounds perfectly
reasonable.  The convoluted definitions of Michael and
others are not.

--- Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> People may do an exhibition in close embrace tango
> and this is Stage tango.

Derik
d.rawson at rawsonweb.com

--- Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I think that at this point it is important to define
> 'Social Tango'.
> 
> As you know the first division of tango in Argentina
> is Salon (the one done 
> socially at the salons or clubs) and Stage (the one
> performed for 
> exhibitions or on stage).
> 
> IMO when people gather to socialize and dance they
> are doing 'social 
> dancing' irrespective of the style they are doing.
> 
> So people may gather to do Salon Open embrace or
> Nuevo tango and this is 
> Social dancing.
> 
> People may do an exhibition in close embrace tango
> and this is Stage tango.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Sergio
> 
>
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