[Tango-L] Outside Influences (was The Original Tango Festival)

[Igor Polk]

Trini:
"the point in my post was that
Argentine women teachers without a regular male partner
seem to be treated with less respect in BsAs .."

I came a long way to understand that if something happening, it is happening
for a reason, especially if it is a custom.
Instead of cheaply criticizing Argentineans that they do not treat women
with the same "respect", try to understand why.
I believe if they do, there is a reason for that.
And I'd better look for the reason.

And the reason is ( and that was discussed by Keith of HK ) that a man can
teach both men and women a good tango. A woman have much more difficulties
of doing it. Women are not men and this is it, that is how nature put it.
Only a man can teach other men how to be a man in Argentine Tango. And at
the same time a man can teach any women with ease. May be not to be a star
of the show, but to dance well.

You brought here Susana Miller right in place. Isn't it why men learned
dancing from her in America are quite different because Susana Miller, a
woman with huge influence and popularity outside of BA was not able to
convey the right essence of a tango man?

Igor Polk