[Tango-L] milonga

[timmytango@aol.com]

Trini wrote

Hi all,

A few weeks ago, I fretted about whether folks were still teaching the 
man's
orientation with his back toward the center of the circle.  Most of the 
milonga
workshops I have attended in recent years had the man facing the line 
of dance
and the focus has been on traspie.  A search of Youtube (even on 
dancers like
Facundo) did not yield a lot of evidence of the man's orientation, so 
it was
difficult for me to show my students this style of dancing.

Today, though, I was pleased to find a video that clearly shows classic 
milonga
steps being done with this orientation.  To me, this is what makes 
milonga more
milonga than tango.  It's a demo, so they're traveling all over the 
place, but
the vocabularly speaks for itself.  And, of course, Geraldine's dance 
pedigree
is well-known.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp4y7qOEkDI&feature=related

Enjoy!

Trini de Pittsburgh


Matej Oresic from Ithica NY was the first person who taught dancing 
milonga in a sideways fasion, where the man was looking towards the 
outside of the dance floor instead of line of dance. What ever happened 
to Matej?