[Tango-L] Gender Imbalance/Advertising for men

Tue Jan 8 09:47:36 EST 2008

I iwll be having business cards printed up soon - and I love the idea 
of having some featured videos that I can send folks to to see 
Argentine tango social dancing - any suggestions...

barbra

Have you joined the Buffalo Argentine Tango Society Yahoo! group yet? 
It's easy, and the best way to make sure you know what we're doing and 
what's going on with the Argentine tango in and around Buffalo......go 
to www.yahoo.com > select Groups > search for Buffalo Argentine Tango 
Society > follow the directions to join BATS_tango. Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Tango For Her <tangopeer at yahoo.com>
To: Tango-L <tango-l at mit.edu>
Sent: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:11 pm
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Gender Imbalance/Advertising for men

'Mash wrote:

I think people don't want to dance tango as they have
no idea what tango is. Everyone STILL thinks it is the
dance with a rose between your teeth!

Exactly!

Most people associate tango with ballroom.  If they
haven't looked into tango by now, then, it's probably
still in that same category, to them, even after you
meantion it to them and go on about how it is
different.

I remember that I definitely thought it was "that
dance with the rose between your teeth".  The only
reason I showed up was because it was the only dance
class that was starting that week.  I was recently
seperated and neeeeded to get out there and I found
that dance classes were great because you changed
partners and met women.  I saw tango in the newspaper,
said, "Yuk!" to myself and went anyway out of
desperation!

Here's an idea:

Make business cards that have:

On one side:  URLs of the local sites with the most
info.

On the other side:  URLS to sites that have videos
that show easier tango.

It is my opinion that showing Show Tango isn't going
to attract them ... but, that's just my opinion.  I
like the idea of putting links to videos where the man
and woman are close, the dance is SIMPLE and the woman
looks like she is in love.  Then, again, that's just
the romantic in me.  I don't know what would attract
other guys.

Anyway, maybe, one of the tango societies in a given
city that actually has a healthy enough budget could
spearhead that kind of effort.

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