[Tango-L] Tango-L Digest, Vol 18, Issue 20

[michael doyle]

Christopher,

Could you elaborate on your second paragraph below? I do not think I
understand completely what you are getting at.

Michael



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> Message: 13
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:03:28 -0500
> From: ceverett at ceverett.com
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] what makes milonguero, milonguero
>
> In other words:
>
> Draw a circle and label it "Salon", then draw a smaller circle
> inside that, label that as "Close Embrace", then inside the
> second circle draw a third you can finally label "Milonguero".
>
> The Milonguero Circle is the set of limitations imposed by
> accelerating decrepitude and dancing in tight quarters in
> BA over the last 20 or so years.  Of course, there is the
> additional set of circumstances that most new "Milonguero"
> dancers ape the styles of the lucky few dancers that found
> a style many of their partners enjoy or ended up in a movie.
>
> For those of us with a bit more space and athletic ability
> (mostly balance), we have more possibilities, and we should
> use them to develop our own styles, inside the limitations
> that the social norms of tango impose, of course.
>
> Christopher
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