[Tango-L] CITA begins in BsAs

[Tango Tango]

Hi Dani.

I did indeed read your post and I understood it fully.

Please stay away from the Bs. As. milongas.

Best regards,
Neil


On 3/16/07, Club~Tango*La Dolce Vita~ <dani at tango-la-dolce-vita.eu> wrote:
>
> 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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