[Tango-L] Fw: taxi dancers

[Astrid]

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