[Tango-L] Tango Competition in Buenos Aires

[Club~Tango*La Dolce Vita~]

Keith,
You conveniently misunderstand.

I am a VERY competitive person (in fact, almost pathologically) in ANYthing. I'm not against tango competitions by any means. I simply echo Russell's very valid observations:

i.   That "it seems completely against the spirit of the improvised social dance, especially in the hallowed Buenos Aires";
ii.  "equally perplexing is that Janice is reporting about it, someone I have long considered to be a guardian of the milonguero ethos..."

Furthermore, is there a way of assessing/marking how each partner feels of the other within the dance? No? Being that a HUGE part of the dance is the passion/emotion conveyed between the two dancing together, it seems to me that competition not only initiates the demise from improvisation but also may prove to eventually kill the important emotional input in tango... ie tango itself. Perhaps the natural progression is for authentic tango (ie Argentine) to end up in the clinical basket currently inhabited by that rubbish Ballroom 'tango' (or so-called)...?

Further, furthermore, I am being drawn into a ridiculous argument I don't want to be in as it's so silly.
 
Very best wishes
Dani ~
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----- Original Message ----
From: Keith <keith at tangohk.com>
To: tango-l at mit.edu
Sent: Monday, 6 August, 2007 12:42:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Tango Competition in Buenos Aires


Dani and Russell,

You may not like Tango competitions and you may think they're against the spirit of Tango. But you'd better get used to them because I'm sure it will be a growing trend. It was interesting to read Tete's interview recently. He said that when he first learned and danced Tango in the 40s and 50s, there were Tango competitions in Buenos Aires almost every week, so it's not a new phenomenon. 

The standard of Ballroom Dancing has reached incredible heights because of the competitive element. But not everyone chooses to be a competitor. So why should anyone be against Tango competitions? If you don't want to compete, you don't have to - just stick with your Social Dancing; what's the problem? A lot of people enjoy competition, especially when they've worked hard at something and think they're better than the rest. Why shouldn't they be given the opportunity to prove it?

Keith, HK



On Mon Aug  6 17:27 , Club~Tango*La Dolce Vita~  sent:

>>What I find equally perplexing is that Janice is reporting about it, someone I have 
>>long considered to be a guardian of the milonguero ethos...
>
>Hear, hear, Russell...!
>...particularly the last sentence of your first paragraph.
> 
>Very best wishes
>Dani ~
>`El Zorro de Tango' >:-)))))
> 
>~Tango*La Dolce Vita~
> 
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Russell Ranno russellranno at hotmail.com>
>To: Tango-L at MIT.EDU
>Sent: Monday, 6 August, 2007 8:11:58 AM
>Subject: [Tango-L] Tango Competition in Buenos Aires
>
>
>What is the deal with these tango competitions?  I understand it from a 
>Ballroom perspective but it seems completely against the spirit of the 
>improvised social dance, especially in the hallowed Buenos Aires.  What I 
>find equally perplexing is that Janice is reporting about it, someone I have 
>long considered to be a guardian of the milonguero ethos...
>
>Does anybody have an interest in what kind of boleos are "allowed"?
>
>Russell
>


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