[Tango-L] Fame and photos

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Trini wrote:

<Susana Miller's influence was in the teaching, not the dancing.  Many of the 
old-timers had no idea how they did what they did.>

True, but some do know how to teach. She may have figured out how to teach it 
well but she never learned to dance it well.   I prefer to take workshops 
with someone I consider a beautiful dancer.

Admittedly many dancers are not good teachers, but more importantly, students 
tend to emulate the dancers they like. Whether good or bad, a teacher is 
still going to be the dance model for what they teach. That is my point: Susana 
Miller is a so-so dancer with an over-inflated reputation, not an important and 
influential one. She just got more publicity. The only reason her "close 
embrace" approach was novel was because it appealed to people who had no sense of 
tango history or never learned tango correctly in the first place. Tango has 
alway been danced close, unless it was a performance (as on the stage, NOT in 
the milongas). So-called "close embrace" (or milonguero or whatever) has been 
around for almost a century. It is sad when the traditional way of dancing is 
forgotten or ignored to the point that someone can come along and market it as 
if it were a new way of dancing.
Cheers,
Charles


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