[Tango-L] Milongas (or Practicas) in Denver

[Chris, UK]

OK, I stand corrected: 

> Denver, a metro area of perhaps 3 million people

has not 2 milongas a week, but 2.5. Along with approx. 20 classes etc.

> I'll bet it is the same in pretty much everywhere.

No, Tom. A European city of that size has about ten times as many milongas.

Neil wrote:

> There's more money in teaching that in running a milonga. That's why we
> are blessed with such a wealth of 'teachers' in Colorado, and thus; many
> classes.

Well, same here... except the determining factor is not number of teachers 
but number of interested students - they are relatively few, and hence so 
are classes. People much prefer to spend their tango time in milongas.

What puzzles me is why USA people find spending tango time in classes 
preferable. By (apparently) a factor of 10.

Chris




-------- Original Message --------

*Subject:* Re: [Tango-L] Tango in the USA
*From:* "Tango Tango" <tangotangotango at gmail.com>
*To:* tl2 at chrisjj.com
*CC:* tango-l at mit.edu
*Date:* Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:23:12 -0800

There's more money in teaching that in running a milonga. That's why we are
blessed with such a wealth of 'teachers' in Colorado, and thus; many
classes.

Neil


On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:55 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), Chris, UK <
tl2 at chrisjj.com> wrote:
>
> > A better Colorado website is put out by Tango Colorado:
> >
> > http://TangoColorado.org
>
> Can this really be correct? Colorado state has only two weekly milongas?
>
> Yet over twenty weekly classes/practicas? I wonder where all these class
> students go to actually dance...
>
> Chris