[Tango-L] Serpentine youth in Zagreb..look out!

[Myk Dowling]

Anton Stanley wrote:
> 
> I guess most people would agree with Sorin, that good tango is in the
> eyes of the beholder. But I can't agree. No more than good wine is in
> the taste buds of the beholder. In my opinion, it's got nothing to do
> with which I prefer. I might have a penchant for crappy wine and cheap
> fish and chips. Doesn't make it good cuisine. From my limited
> experience, tango seems to increasingly lack a clear identity and a
> corresponding benchmark for assessment. 

If you want benchmarks for assessment, go do International Ballroom! 
They've got plenty.

Argentine Tango is a social dance, with no ruling body to define and 
control it. As such, it is free to adapt to changing preferences of the 
people who dance it. There will always be variation and disagreement, as 
any perusal of the discussions about styles shows. There have always 
been such differences, there will always be such differences.

Consider that your experience of an "increasing lack of identity" may 
simply be due to a wider experience of the existing variation and 
discussion that is out there.

> I'm incredulous at the enormous
> variation of opinion on core matters, emanating from this list. A list
> which I suspect, harbors the intelligencia of Tango. 

Don't overrate this list. It's a microcosm of the Tango world

Myk
in Canberra