[Tango-L] CITA begins in BsAs

Thu Mar 15 21:11:55 EDT 2007

Neil,

  You clearly do not know what the hell you are talking about, and you obviously did not read my posting correctly. Perhaps it's simply that you choose to ignore the what I've actually said and have corrupted it to suit your own ego.

  Read on...

  I DO go to BsAs milongas and I DO dance close and DO NOT implement wild ganchos and voleos while I am dancing. I keep things tight and unobtrusive.

  I think you should shut your mouth and pay attention to what is actually said in a posting rather than bleat belching platitudes relating to your own corrupt perceptions designed undoubtedly to satisfy your own self importance.

  I did not insult anyone, yet you seem to think it's okay to insult me...!

  Get your act together, man... if, indeed, that's what you are!

  Dani

Tango Tango <tangotangotango at gmail.com> wrote:
  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~ 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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