[Tango-L] Argentines born for tango

[Alberto Gesualdi]

Dear friends from tango list 
   
  Once again I have to make some rough numbers for your enlightnement.
   
  1) Buenos Aires is a citiy with 2 million inhabitants and 3 million people that come to work from Great Buenos Aires= 5 million people.
   
  2) Tango social dancing activity is made on local milongas, which are around 100 dancing places, not open every day , not really big places. So the average people dancing tango on a random day would be ... around 5.000 persons , with good luck and favourable trade winds pushing them to the dancing floors :)
   
  3) Add if you want the tango paraphernalia that is offered every day , music shows , stage perfomances ,.dining places , this could add 10.000 that do not dance tango socially,but may like to watch a show.
   
  4) Season with some cruisers that come regularly to the Buenos Aires River port tourist facility , with their cargo of people . Usually they are taken to Puerto Madero area, they watch some show of tango , eat meat , drink red wine , and return to their cabins on board.
   
  Tango music is not played on the streets, there are no parades of bandoneonists playing La cumparsita (which is an uruguayan tango by the way ) , sorry for great expectations about it.
   
  The main event this days is not the Tango Festival, but the Cirque du Soleil, that will start this weekend their shows on a special facility on Costanera Sur, with a sold out of tickets that is impressive.
   
  On Tango Festival, the entrance is free, and every day the office of the festival is crowded with people taking out the free tickets, so it is difficult to find a seat at any venue, if you arrive over the hour, unless you have a close aquaintance inside the place, that could let you in .
   
  It is a matter of size of the shows , although it is presented as a city show, the city of Buenos Aires keeps going the pace of the everyday life , the Tango festival would be noticed only the days when some major streers are closed for dancing , making a nightmare for the traffic to go ahead .
   
  warm regards
  alberto gesualdi
  buenos aires


  
> > From: Derik Rawson
> > The Argentines are really great dancers because they
> > start dancing tango when they are 6 years old,

. Basically, there are as many kinds of
> Argentines as you can imagine. Or more. ;)
> --
> Michael 'Bink' Knowles

As a matter of fact, there even are Argentines who have lived in Japan for a
number of years, at some point hit hard times with their business, then took
tango lessons, and later declared themselves to be tango teacher who has
danced tango for 15 years or so. One of them takes credit for having been
born in San Telmo, for having been submerged in tango from before he learned
to walk. The first time I met him in Tokyo, in a tango workshop, he could
not even lead a salida, but he does not remember that now.
Having said that, they are still nice guys, you just can't believe their
inflated resume'.

Astrid


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