[Tango-L] CITA begins in BsAs

[Tango Tango]

Hi Dani.

I'm glad you enjoy events like CITA.

Please stay away from the Bs. As. milongas.

Thanks
Neil


On 3/15/07, Club~Tango*La Dolce Vita~ <dani at tango-la-dolce-vita.eu> wrote:
>
> Dear Tango Bigots, and those on my side,
>
>   I'm currently at CITA (my 6th participation at CITA, and 8th visit to
> Buenos Aires for tango!) and I'm sick to death of the apparent snobbery
> directed at the CITA event...!
>
>   What you get at CITA is a concentration of some of the best tango
> exponents (YES... TANGO!) in the world for in effect a fraction of what
> you'd normally pay for lessons from such experts... YES, EXPERTS!
>
>   If you don't agree with this, then SHUT-UP rather than condemn,
> criticise and accuse!
>
>   Haven't you people heard the expression "Live and Let Live"...???!!!
>
>   As we go through the ages, the natural progression of ANY form of the
> Arts, Martial Arts, Literature... ANY DAMN THING!... is the concept of
> evolution! All things evolve! Anyone with any sort of internal creativity,
> improvisatory skills.... indeed BRAIN!... will adapt, create and invent!!!
> Isn't that how tango started??? ...an evolution of creativity in
> dance-associated culture governed by music???
>
>   Come off your high horses and accept that what you (and you
> SPECIFICALLY!) enjoy now - in any form of the arts - has come about through
> the evolution of many different facets of creative skills, intuition,
> curiosity and invention! We discover ourselves and or interests by
> experimention and creation!
>
>   The interest in tango - however any particular individual interprets
> that word and art/dance form - has seen a WORLDWIDE resurgence of popularity
> over the past 40 years or so due to the promotion of this dance by events
> such as CITA and organisers/tango entrepreneurs such as Gustavo Naveira and
> Fabian Salas. It seems that the self-empowered 'purists' wish you hijack the
> success of the promotion of modern tango for their own ends.
>
>   YES, I agree that one DOES learn (in some ways) more from in situ
> 'hands-on' experience rather than learning steps, but consider this:
>
>   i.   Working in classes with exercises, guidance, advice etc ...is, in
> itself, considerably more beneficial (in other ways) by ensuring that bad
> habits are ironed out, coordination, balance and improvisatory skills are
> improved and honed.
>
>   ii.  It doesn't matter whether the student is learning stage stuff,
> patterns, fantasia, acrobatics, how to rub their bellies while patting their
> heads, how to juggle lemons or, indeed, angelic choral singing...! The point
> is that they are developing a heightening of their proprioceptive abilities
> in coordinative, balance, and whatever else - skills!
>
>   Now, taking the above points and examining them, can't you all see that
> these (and no doubt other aspects I haven't mentioned) will surely aid and
> improve WHATEVER type/style of tango the student prefers...???!!!
>
>   The important thing for anyone to remember is that the CITA teachers DO
> INDEED make it clear to the students that much of the stuff they are
> learning is NOT APPLICABLE in a normal milonga situation...! I know this for
> a fact!
>
>   I am not, strictly speaking, getting into an argument about so-called
> 'pure' traditional tango versus [in my words] modern/nuevo, or whatever,
> tango. I simply DO NOT CARE what anyone else dances. Just leave me and
> others who see the benefit of seeking to improve ourselves through events
> such as CITA... ALONE!!! If you can't say anything good... SHUT UP and say
> ...NOWT!
>
>   Again, I'm sick of the bleating of the tango 'bigots' who think that
> THEIR WAY, THEIR VERSION (after all, that's all it is... a VERSION, albeit
> perhaps an original version) is the ONLY way and suggest that everyone else
> is wrong!
>
>   I dance (I think!) closed-embrace Tango Nuevo... and I like it!
>
>   [All close-minded tango bigots: hate-mail, please, to...]
>   Dani Iannarelli
>   Edinburgh,
>   Scotland UK
>
>
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