[Tango-L] taxi dancers

[Astrid]

>I notice it's the men who are responding to this.  Are we talking about
female taxi dancers, or male taxi dancers?  Seems to me that it's the
women who are really stuck in BsAs, because the codes do not allow them
to ask anybody.

pardon me, Carol, but this one who responded was very much a woman...
I have heard it both ways- a young, pretty lady went from Tokyo to BsAs for 
a week's stay (36 hours by airplane, mind you!) only to sit around and be 
ignored for the first four days at the milonga.
Anybody remember Larry Carroll's reports from Argentina years ago before he 
left this list? Something like "I dressed young in a light grey silk shirt, 
went to a milonga full of young people and every time I thought I had caught 
somebody's attention enough to give her the cabeceo, I realised she was 
concentrating on looking at someone behind me. Finally I decided to prove to 
them that I could dance and went onto the dance floor during the break and 
performed a state-of-the-art giro con lapiz by myself with perfect balance 
and suave elegance. Still, nothing..."
I have heard German men say that portenas are really strict about who they 
dance with and you hardly get a chance with them, unless you are really 
good, and they will brusquely turn you down if you have the nerve to ask 
them directly.
Then, there is the other side: the rich aging Japanese ballerina who spent 
her time in BA picking men's wandering hands off the side of her breast in 
the close embrace, the other lady who was offered private lessons by 
everyone who asked her to dance, the one who was told by an Argentine:"If 
you want to get any dances here, you have to wear sexier clothes and show 
more skin...", and the man who had a great time dancing with all his fellow 
tourists...
Argentine women have told me that BA milongas can be just as bad as Tokyo, 
as far as gender balance is concerned, and while a "friend" regularly dances 
with them at one milonga full of people from the same age group, he will 
ignore them completely the next day at another milonga where the women are 
younger...

maybe people could share more stories on this horror subject? ; )