[Tango-L] Milonga 101 -- conversation between dances

[buffmilonguera@aol.com]

At the milongas I have, I do just that....and repeatedly ask, at the 
milonga and in my periodic e-mails,  that folks respect the line of 
dance, keep the "fancy stuff" in the corners or the middle and take the 
teaching somewhere else entirely.  I got/get a fair amount of abuse and 
sarcasm, but the behavior is getting better.  The confusing part for 
me, is that the "offenders" are often experienced people who complain 
to me when "the rules" are not being followed.....and, if I have to be 
scrupulously honest, there are times when I am not as careful as I 
should be either.  I think it is actually a vicious cycle - experienced 
people get annoyed at the new people so they dance around them, the new 
folks look at the experienced folks careening around the dance floor so 
they think it's okay, they start doing it, the experienced folks get 
more annoyed, and so on, and so on, and so on.....

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: Trini y Sean (PATangoS) <patangos at yahoo.com>
To: tango-l at mit.edu
Sent: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 5:17 pm
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Milonga 101 -- conversation between dances






> It's a constant source of amazement to me that dancers,
> not tourists, the cleaners, or someone who stumbled into
the place by mistake, but dancers! - will stand in a group
of 4 or 5 on a dance floor and hold a $^%*(* discussion
while people dance around them. Perhaps they are urgently
discussing the finer points of milonga etiquette?
>

How's this for a solution - ask them to move the
conversation off of the floor.

Trini de Pittsburgh

PATangoS - Pittsburgh Argentine Tango Society
   Our Mission: To make Argentine Tango Pittsburgh’s most popular social 
dance!
  http://patangos.home.comcast.net/




       
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