[Tango-L] Dancing socially to Piazzolla

[Nina Pesochinsky]

Piazzolla is never played at the traditional milongas.  But... the 
traditional milongas are dying, along with the people to whom they 
meant something.  Authentic Argentine tango is either dead, or will 
be soon  We can't go home.

Why try to build a shelter from a nuclear attack?  Why would you want 
to survive?!  To dance authentic Argentine tango, of course.  Alone.

What difference does it make what music is played at the milongas 
these days, since most people can't really dance to any of 
it?  Piazzolla, D'Agostino - different temperamentally and equally 
complicated.  So who cares what is being played?!  And many are just 
projecting their own fantasy of the past,  having heard all about 
it.  One can waste a lifetime sitting there in the milongas in BsAs 
or any place else in anticipation of a glorious tanda, which never 
arrives, or if arrives, in anticipation of a glorious partner for the 
next tanda, or, if that does not happen, in anticipation of another 
milonga the next day.

Piazzolla is bad if one can't dance to it.  So is D'Arienzo and all 
the rest, so it might as well be Piazzolla.

I say, to hell with the rules if they have no meaning.  When men and 
women have stopped being men and women and became amoebas ready to 
dance to anything in any role, why try to save anything?  You can't 
play a game where the players don't agree on the rules.

And now I will go and swallow some anti-sarcasm drugs.

Nina