[Tango-L] No place left to dance

[RonTango]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Larry Richelli <larryrichy at yahoo.com>
> To: tango-l at mit.edu
> Sent: Mon, October 19, 2009 12:19:50 PM

> >Traditional
> tango dancers do not mind to have separated milongas, as most of them
> consider that Nuevo dancers disrupt their >dancing.
> 
> This is good. I just wish we could have separate festivals. For instance, Denver 
> is advertised as a close embrace festival but man, it is not longer this way. 
> You have two or three guys that can dance open nuevo pretty good and 20 other 
> guy that want to be just like them that can't. This has really screwed up this 
> festival and the line of dance, even though they have an alt milonga on one 
> afternoon. 

I've been to Denver twice, in 2004 and 2005, and to San Diego in 2007 (same festival concept). Navigation was pretty good in Denver the times I went, but some of the locals in San Diego didn't realize it was a festival for social dancing rather than showing how well you could weave quickly in and out of the line of dance. Now San Diego 2010 has 2 prominent nuevo instructors scheduled. One has to wonder if Denver will follow suit. It's beginning to look like there may no longer be any festivals in the US where a tango milonguero dancer can find solitude away from the nuevo invasion. It looks like we will have no other option than to go to Buenos Aires to find milongas with a supportive social dancing atmosphere. That wouldn't be bad if it weren't so far away. 

Ron