[Tango-L] Invoking BA

[Jay Rabe]

Jake ... well said

[my favorite excerpts]

Even ...in Buenos Aires itself ... there has always been dispute, conflict, 
and competition over dancing styles. If the city is definitively anything, 
it is definitively divided.

dancers [in BsAs]... have always been at each other's throats over who's got 
the "real" style.

The old guard has always shut down the innovators, and the innovators have 
always fought back.

Teachers are notorious for contradicting each other and also themselves.

[Tango] never even rose into prominence among Argentines, or approached 
anything resembling a popular identity, until it came back from Paris with a 
stamp of approval

If Buenos Aires is the mother country of the tango, she certainly needed a 
lot of help raising the miscreant after she left it to perish on the stoop 
of a whorehouse.

Every visiting Argentine teacher I've met in the U.S. - without exception - 
[answers] questions about authenticity, [by shifting] emphasis to individual 
style - not theirs, mind you, but Yours.

[and the best one IMO...]

Since the whole damn thing is an *ART* [emphasis added], ... [how can it be] 
so boneheadedly orthodox ... so coweringly in search of validation[?]

Since the whole damn thing is an *ART* [emphasis added], ... [how can it be] 
so boneheadedly orthodox ... so coweringly in search of validation[?]

     J in Portland
     www.TangoMoments.com