[Tango-L] Tango in the Spring - festival report

[Mario]

This is an interesting idea...no classes, hmmmm.
  I once spoke with a woman who had attended a festival in Wash. D.C. (she from Phila.) and was very disappointed because no one asked her to dance. She is an excellent dancer
  and felt that because she had not attended any classes, no one had met nor felt familiar with her and so no one asked her to dance. Is that the case? Did the classes produce their own cliques? And what about the rank newbie, the person who never danced before? Are
  they uninvited by default?  I've never been to a 'festival' and so, my questions could seem
  ignorant but thems my questions. Any thoughts on the are welcome. I just thought that
  after hearing this woman's experience, that all women should take classes if they go far
  to a festival out of town.