[Tango-L] Videos of Dancing at Milongas

[Astrid]

I very much doubt that this would be a major reason people would not want to 
be filmed. I only know a very small number of married couples attending 
milongas together in Tokyo, anyway. For one couple, both partners dance with 
others too. For another couple, the wife once confided to me that she does 
not enjoy dancing tango with her husband- "because he makes her follow him 
all the time at home too, and this is no different" (!). Everone else leaves 
their partner at home, if they have one, and practically never talk about 
him/her. A normal thing to do in Japanese culture, by the way.
However, I once brought a camera to a practica, got a bit of footage of 
everyone, including myself, and when viewing and sharing the results later, 
I told two Japanese friends that "you learn a lot about your mistakes when 
you can see yourself on video". Both of them never came back for months 
after that. Uh- oh...

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> "Good point John, but more relevant to the milongas of BA
> than the USA. I don't know about the EU."
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Probably infinitely less relevant in the EU than the US. Americans are the 
only dancers I have ever noticed pointing out that "they only dance with 
their wife/husband". Make they feel they are being good and doing what they 
are supposed to be doing- but how boring !

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> But I'm not sure why you singled out the "male first-class
> passengers". Clearly, for that to be true, then it must be
> equally true that every last one of the female first-class
> passengers was with someone other than her husband.
>
> Sean
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. Every last one of the male first-class passengers
> was with someone other than his wife.
>
> John Ward
> Bristol, UK
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