[Tango-L] "Alternative" Music....

[Kat]

I think it's strange that you see my last email as
angry and one-sided, and that you still think all I
dance is wacky open-embrace nuevo, when the majority
of my experience is close-embrace to traditional
music.  if anything, I was trying to communicate that
what I was avoiding with my preference in who I dance
with, how I dance, what I dance to, and what I respond
to, are absolutes, on either end of the spectrum.  the
first two emails were very sarcastic, the last one was
simply direct.  I have no gripe with classic tango, I
have a gripe with the people who vehemently believe
that that can only mean one thing, and that they are
the person to tell me what that is.

It's amazing to me how many thank you emails I've
gotten from people on the list, who have been
browbeaten out of dancing altogether by these kinds of
tirades.  

I'm not angry, I'm irritated and defending the small
patch of ground that I stand on, that I didn't ask for
any company on, but was under attack anyways.  Believe
me, if I was trying to conquer, you would know it.

Everybody needs to lighten up.  The rose in the teeth
thing was a joke.  A comment on living a stereotype. 
I understand that tango is about being intense, and
anguish, saudaude, etc.  A person can feel those
things without looking a certain way, or listening to
ONE type of music.  Honestly, the tango purists are
worse than the cliquiest bunch of goth kids.  The
irony of that being that if one is so concerned with
how others percieve loneliness and anguish to be, they
can't possibly understand what it means to truly be
lonely.

As I said earlier, nobody has to join me.  In fact,
please don't!  I just want people to recognize my
right to disagree, that maybe their gospel is not
right for everyone.  It's amazing that my poking fun
at their dogma has unsettled people to the point of
denouncing an entire nation.  Believe me, there are
much better reasons to not like Americans.

Again, I never called it Argentine.

Kat

--- WHITE 95 R <white95r at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Good grief Kat, why are you so angry? I don't know
> if we've ever met but I 
> can assure you that "aryan" is the last adjective
> that would apply to my 
> tango..... I am sad to hear and read such hatred
> towards something that I 
> really love. I respect your desire to dance sloppily
> to whatever music or 
> noise you like. And I don't care if you only like
> people who wear cargo 
> pants and shirt tails out of their pants (actually
> I've worn such clothing 
> before). What bothers me is your polarizing and
> insulting comments. Your 
> posts sound like some politicians inflammatory
> rhetoric "If you don't 
> support my viewpoint or policy, you are with the
> enemies..."
> 
> I and others who disagree with you are not hide
> bound reactionaries or 
> slick-haired, costumed caricatures of some ugly,
> patronizing, derogatory 
> tango parody. Personally, I'm very proud of my
> non-aryan, Spanish-American 
> heritage. I'm not a stiff, rule-following tango
> dictator. The thing that I 
> believe with all my heart is that the tango is not a
> collection or series of 
> steps and movements performed to just any music. The
> tango is the dance 
> "and" the music.
> 
> Many of the steps and movements that I see performed
> under the guise of 
> tango while some other genre of music plays in the
> background, do not even 
> resemble the Argentine tango. I just don't accept
> that tango is some 
> performance of tango-based movements performed to
> some electronic lounge 
> music, or some circus soundtrack, or some 1970's
> rock for that matter. 
> Please do what you want to do, but please stop your
> sarcastic, venomous 
> attacks on the tango and some of us who love it.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Manuel
> 
> 
> 
> >In any case, don't worry, I'm not coming to your
> town
> >to pollute your aryan tango.  I don't want it.  i'd
> >much rather have dirty, sloppy, broken tango with
> some
> >balls.
> 
>
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