[Tango-L] The Top Six Tango Cities of the World?

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Tokyo has quite a few milongas, among these 3-4 owned by Argentines, and the 
rest by Japanese, so on some days there are several to choose from. The 
number of dancers can be between 20 and 120, I guess. There are also some 
special events in larger halls, with live music.
Many of the great names of tango have come here regularly or at least once 
to teach, so I have a chance to take lessons and dance with Juan Carlos 
Copes, Fabian Salas, Carlos Gavito, Jorge Torres, Oscar Mandagaran, Sergio 
Cortazzo, Nito Garcia, Carlos Copello and others.
The level of dancing can be fairly high at times, anyway, a lot higher than 
what I have seen in Berlin in most places, and Berlin is famous for tango. 
Of course not always, and the Japanese may be better at technique than at 
expressing emotion but still.
Argentine-Japanese couples have scored among the first five in the past two 
mundials. Now we also have the Asian tango championships here with Argentine 
judges.
Still, I feel limited tangowise sometimes because I do not attend milongas 
run by Japanese.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mario" <sopelote at yahoo.com>
To: <tango-l at mit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 4:42 AM
Subject: [Tango-L] The Top Six Tango Cities of the World?


> What are your top Ten Tango Cities of the world?  Ranked by;
>
>  1. Number of Milongas/Practicas occurring each week
>  2. Number of dancers attending
>  3. Quality of dancing
>  4. Availability of Tango instruction
>  5. Popularity of it's Annual Tango Festival
>
>  We all know which city will be number one but how about
>  number two, three and four?
>  You don't have to have visited each city in order to rate them.
>   There are other ways to come to an opinion and we are mostly just
>  guessing but perhaps a city or two will show up high on the
>  list that you haven't considered before...please, take a few
>  minutes and list your opinions from any experience whatsoever
>  including reading blogs, viewing Youtube, etc. etc.
>  Aren't we all curious about how this will stack up, including our own
>  favorites?
>
>
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