[Tango-L] Classic alternative?

[ceverett@ceverett.com]

In Minneapolis, there are some tangueros with serious ballroom 
dancing backgrounds.  One couple in particular automatically 
dances swing, rumba, cha-cha, foxtrot or whatever else seems 
appropriate to them to a lot of alternative music.  I love it 
when they do that, because if the DJ wanted them to dance tango
steps to non-traditional music, he shouldn't have asked dancers 
to ram a square peg into a round hole.

As a DJ, I could tell stories about some requests I get for 
alternative music, but I think I'll pass on that ... I'm trying 
to be a good boy. ;)

Christopher

PS.  I love what Andres Amarillo posted many months back: "Tango 
*is* alternative".  It's become my stock answer when I'm not in 
the mood to accommodate such requests.

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 21:16:22 -0700, "Konstantin Zahariev"
<anfractuoso at gmail.com> said:
> On 7/6/07, Igor Polk <ipolk at virtuar.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > There is a problem with it located beyond musical qualities. Once ( in
> > Denver ) a DJ started to play a set of great old foxtrots. What could be
> > better for a milonga ! I invited one young lady. She said "Not to this music
> > !". I said "Why - it is so perfectly danceable, driving?". "I hate it!!!"
> > she said.
> >
> > Igor Polk
> > PS. Can you tell me why did she say so? I am interested to know, I am an
> > immigrant: this is beyond my understanding yet.
> 
> 
> Yes. She did not hate the music. She just hated the idea of dancing
> tango (*) steps to something that is not tango (*). I don't think
> understanding this has anything to do with being an immigrant or not.
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> Konstantin
> Victoria, Canada
> 
> (*) in this context 'tango' encompasses the tango trinity of dances
> and musical forms  - tango, vals, and milonga.
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