[Tango-L] Surplus Tanguera - Not

[Ilene Marder]

Brick... you don't choose a partner during the cortina...the cortina 
gives you time to leave the floor, sit down, re-adjust and look around 
to see who you might want to make contact with for the next tanda. When 
the music starts, the leaders will then choose a follower (with whom he 
likes to dance to that orquesta) , and if he's lucky, she'll choose him.
It is very common to have partners that you like to dance with for 
milonga, for example, but not for tango or vals, or vice versa. So, 
typically, in BsAs clubs, you wait until the music starts before 
choosing a partner. It works very well.


Brick Robbins wrote:

>Chris, UK  wrote
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>>>You've described a group for whom the music
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>is secondary, so no surprise at all that here the curtain's effect is
>actually detrimental.<<
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>Actually I've described a group of men who want to dance.
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>They do care about the music, They care about the music a lot.
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>But if the men wait for the music to start, there are no followers
>left to dance with, and they sit.
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>Once they get a partner they enjoy, they will often hang onto her for
>several Tandas, and eventually get music they like. This contributes
>the feeding frenzy when one of these women becomes available.
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>>>The root cause is a DJ that plays a curtain
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>because "its the done thing" rather than being sensitive to whether it's
>effect is positive or negative in that particular milonga.The DJ could
>stop using a curtain.
>Then after every tanda, the dancers
>will hear what the next music is before there's time for invitations.<<
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>So you are suggesting that the DJ should ignore the Tango customs and
>codas that members of this list, and Tangueros world wide, hold so
>dear?
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>That some resident of the United States should ignore the wisdom of
>the Milongueros of BsAs and try to improve upon or "Amercianize"  the
>way things are done in Argentina?
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>Wow....
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