[Tango-L] World Tango Champions Hiroshi and Kyoko

[dierdre black]

Yep, more "tango snobs", eh? They're apparently, everywhere, like the "real tango".  The context is everywhere in the city!  It knows no special barrio/milonga, runs through the blood of the rioplatense people and cannot be denied, whether they know the steps or not:  the secadas and pasos they use every day, just to move through the streets; the taxi driver singing "Volver", while driving me to a practica; the old, finely dressed couple that meets every Wed. afternoon, in Ideal, to enjoy one another's embrace, for a few magical hours; the babies hearing tango from inside the womb.  It's all an organic, external expression of the internal, criollo culture and those who happen to appreciate/study it....wherever they happen to dance....Japan, Paris or Sunderland. (Not to mention the consistently revivifying role of "foreigners" in the history of tango...always better to "mix the bloodlines"(criollo), for more strength and vitality.  Gotta love Woody
 Allen's piquant, perfect and true comment, though(although I think it was first coined by Groucho Marx)....sooo funny!! Reminds me of another funny writer...WS, with his pithy/poignant "What fools these mortals be!"(Midsummer's Night's Dream?)

dblack

--- On Thu, 9/3/09, Brick Robbins <brick at fastpack.com> wrote:

> From: Brick Robbins <brick at fastpack.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] World Tango Champions Hiroshi and Kyoko
> To: tango-l at mit.edu
> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 9:52 PM
> > They say that they avoid to go
> to downtown milongas, since , in their own words " they are
> full of foreign visitors". On the nieghbourhood milogas,
> Kyoko says that is by looking how the vetran couples dance,
> is where the real tango is.<
> 
> I find this statement amusing.... or something.....This
> "foreign"
> couple doesn't like dancing where the "foreigners"
> dance.....
> 
> So to loosely quote Woody Allen "They'd never join a club
> that would
> allow people like them to become members?"  WTF?
> 
> Brick Robbins
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