[Tango-L] Victor, chicho, the real tango, practica X

[Nussbaum, Martin]

I was focusing on the leader, the overall impression of the musicality
of the couple. The original post by Victor dissed chicho and gustavo. I
made the statement in comparison to them.  Few leaders can measure up to
chicho.  Not sure if that is Jennifer, who I agree is a wonderful
dancer.  But that leader certainly does not do her skills justice, nor
does he compare to her usual partner, Ney. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Astrid [mailto:astrid at ruby.plala.or.jp] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:16 PM
To: Nussbaum, Martin; tango-l at mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Victor, chicho, the real tango, practica X

> Victor, I am not sure what you mean by calling chicho and gustavo too 
> "polished", unless that means they dance very well.  The example you 
> showed from practica x was, in comparison,  like robotic stick figures

> without any soul.

Martin, who you are calling a "robotic stick figure from practica x
without any soul" is actually Jennifer Bratt who has been a member of
this list for many years, and is the ex partner of Robin Thomas (who can
be seen in the pics of Providence, whereever that is, but someone called
it one of the tango capitals of this world recently in here). And I
quite like the way she dances and cannot really see a major difference
to the style of the girl dancing with Chicho in your youtube video.