[Tango-L] Fw: Re: World Tango Champions Hiroshi and Kyoko

[dierdre black]

--- On Fri, 9/4/09, dierdre black <dblioness2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: dierdre black <dblioness2000 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] World Tango Champions Hiroshi and Kyoko
> To: "dierdre black" <dblioness2000 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 5:13 PM
> Dear TAngoL....thanks, for posting
> this.....as I see it, I realize there needs to be another
> parentheses, for clarity, after the word "vitality". I don't
> suppose there's a way you can edit that, from your
> end?  Thanks, db
> 
> --- On Fri, 9/4/09, dierdre black <dblioness2000 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: dierdre black <dblioness2000 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] World Tango Champions Hiroshi
> and Kyoko
> > To: "Tango L" <Tango-L at mit.edu>,
> "Tango List" <tango-l-request at mit.edu>
> > Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 4:56 PM
> > 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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