[Tango-L] Tanguera/o occupation?

[Ecsedy Áron]

I run a dancestudio for several years now with many styles of dancing 
(social and stage), but about 99% of the clientele are white collar 
workers, many with more than one university degree, well over 50% 
engineers, IT types, or in real science (this is a well known phenomenon 
among teachers as well). In a country where 20% claims to speak any 
other foreign language at some level, well over 80% of the dancer types 
speak English at conversation level.

My theory: the more educated you are, the more open you are to 
non-current stuff. Couple dancing and most dances at a danceschool are 
not part of the current popular culture. People with less education are 
usually too wound up in current things, currently popular ways of 
spending their free time, that in the Western world they don't end up 
learning tango. There are some areas where you can see that current and 
older things bleed into eachother (like salsa), there the clientele is 
also more varied, but in a place like Hungary where there is no latino 
population at all, the 'lower class' (as they are usually handled) will 
abandon most genres as they feel that this is not their social element. 
Obviously, at places where there is an indigenious population where 
(couple) dancing is part of their culture, it is more likely to have 
different echelons side-by-side, or at least having their own parties. 
In case of tango, I can only imagine this in South America (which 
observation tends to support). Nevertheless, some great artists or 
teachers may have a 'low social status' background and be successful 
nevertheless (we have a several times champion international latin who 
is a painter (apartments), or a world class modern jazzballet dancer and 
choreographer who started out as a taxi driver, one of the best swing 
dancers and also swing DJs in Hungary is a plumber, a well known 
professional - stage - tango dancer is an active tram driver).

Cheers,
Aron

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