[Tango-L] Buenos Aires Tango Festivals - Criticism

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

Thanks, Fan.  It seems to me that they could avoid the
problem by calling the categories "amateur/social" and
"open/bailarin" rather than use the word "professional". 
So instead of designating the categories by job, it's more
by intent or skill level.  

Thus, a couple like Los Dinzels, who are professional
teachers could compete in the Social category, and the Juan
Carlos Copes wannebees can be in the Open category.

Just a thought.

Trini de Pittsburgh


--- Fantasia Sorenson <bichonheels at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/19/07, Trini y Sean (PATangoS) <patangos at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I don't fully understand why the Argentine Actors Union
> > feel they would have a claim on "professional dancers".
>  I
> > don't believe the Screen Actors Guild have a claim on
> the
> > professional ballroom dancers.  I would think the
> publicity
> > dancers would get from the championship is pretty good
> > compensation enough.
> 
> 
> It's simply a case of being a little loose in the English
> phraseology.
> Performance unions don't have "claims" on professional
> performers. They're
> advocates and bargaining agents for the performers. The
> idea expressed in
> this op-ed is that if there were to be a distinction
> between amateur and
> professional, then the performers' bargaining agents
> would step in and try
> to negotiate compensation for the professionals who are
> under their
> representation.
> 
> In this op-ed the author is expressing skepticism that
> the event
> coordinators would ever agree to that. Therefore, in the
> author's view, it
> is more likely that they'll continue to overlook the
> distinction between
> amateur and professional.
> 
> My personal experience with friends who have been and are
> now in performing
> professions as that they are much happier receiving cold
> cash over mere
> "publicity".
> 
> It's an interesting point to debate, though. Certainly
> there is a lot of
> sharing of free information on YouTube, for example, that
> brings returns to
> some people. On the other hand, if my actor friends knew
> that someone was
> going to make a profit selling DVDs of their images, they
> would want a piece
> of that right now. They wouldn't want to see somebody
> else making money off
> of them while they simply got "publicity" out of it.
> 
> Fan
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