[Tango-L] Show tango is not REAL tango?!

[ELEMER DUBROVAY]

From: elemer_7 at msn.com
To: larrynla at juno.com; tango-l at mit.edu
Subject: RE: [Tango-L] Show tango is not REAL tango?!
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:47:33 -0700



Hy Larry
 
This is the best explanation of what tango is and how it functions.
I was born in Buenos Aires and started dancing tango in 1947.
 
I live in Redmond WA USA now and it surprises me that some good dancers
and teachers even some coming from Argentina are dancing and teaching
show tango, running around the dancing floor and scaring the other dancers,
doing show tango steps disturbing the regular flow in the milongas.
 
I did watch the fantastic dancing of Osvaldo and Miguel Zotto.
It was in a Tango Festival in Miami.
 
In the regular dancing held after the Show, I watched them dancing between 
the regular dancers in a very elegant way and with no show tango steps and
not disturbing the other couples dancing around them.
 
I am glad that most of the dancers here in Seattle are good dancers and respect
the other dancers.
 
Elemer in Redmond..................
 
 
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> From: larrynla at juno.com
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:30:45 +0000
> To: tango-L at mit.edu
> Subject: [Tango-L] Show tango is not REAL tango?!
> 
> http://www.todotango.com/english/creadores/pavellaneda.asp
> 
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> Politically conscious tango fans often try to make a clear-cut binary 
> distinction between REAL tango and show tango, but the universe rarely 
> cooperates with such rigid views. Sharing with others mastery of 
> something difficult and wonderful is part of human nature. Outside 
> Argentina this often shows up as "tango crimes" such as racing around a 
> crowded floor or doing whirlwind molinetes. Inside Argentina these 
> "criminals" are usually quickly set straight. So very late at milongas 
> in Argentina, when the crowd thins out and the floor opens up, is when 
> you usually see more showy behavior. And not just by energetic 
> acrobatic younger dancers. Those of advanced years who danced so close 
> and simply in the thick of the evening get a bit of room from their 
> partners and get a bit fancy, showing those who've only had, say, a 
> mere decade of tango dance experience what someone can do who's been 
> dancing for several decades.
> 
> Larry de Los Angeles
>> 
> 
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