[Tango-L] alternate names for milongas, and pet peeves

[tangomarty@aol.com]

In NYC there are two major locations where alternative music and/or nuevo styles are predominant:
One is the Wednesday and some?Saturdays?Tango Cafe: Alternative Music Milonga , clearly labeled as such on newyorktango.com.??The other is?the?Saturday?Practilonga, where you seem to have a choice of practicing and stoppping toward the center of the room, or keeping a line of dance in the outer periphery of the room.?? The rest of the milongas in NYC have varied ratios of traditional and modern dancers, and after a while you get to know which one has higher percentages of which. (If you are visiting,?ask a local tanguero).??More open moves are usually reserved for very late into the night, when there is space. ??However, even so armed with information, there is no guarantee you wont come across the?occasional?idiot?road-raging real estate hog, with a high?flying boleo partner, ?at a traditional crowded milonga.? ?Many times?the?worst offenders?are so called "teachers" of tango,?trying to impress students.??That really irks me, as they?clearly know what they are doing to the o
 ther dancers.? I cut more slack to the intermediate who just discovered some leg entanglement and?stops during a fast moving?vals right in front of me to set it up.? At least I can move around them, knowing they will be comatose and stationary for the foreseeable future.?But the "pro", thats another story, a real live wire,?you have no way of knowing which way he will dart like a soccer player running through a pack. Your best strategy then is for the leader to put his??back to them and protect the?follower.? But I am not sure of the etiquette in such a situation if the leader is a woman and the follower is a man.?