[Tango-L] Type-A Tango

[Mario]

  Hi David,   yes i have lots of opinions....and probably don't 'know' much 
about classes...but im trying to distiguish between what goes on in a social 
dance and what goes on in a class..they seem to be different.. like the 'class' 
is about a different dance.
I agree that the leader here pretty much dictates the follow but there is a 
deadliness to their 

dance that is very disappointing to me...if i were hoping for such mastery ,  
I'd 

quit because I'm simply not interested in this dance.
whereas watching videos from tango and chaos  simply AMAZES me! .. sure, theyve 
been dancing umpteen million years..but can't WE go for expression and 
individuality too?   or just cookie cutter dullness...  one has to start 
somewhere... maybe im being too harsh but if you read Bora's blog..it seems to 
me that, she is going 

down the performance path without even knowing it... i say that 'salon' is 
performance..it is only danced in  performance dances that i have ever seen...  
where else is 'salon' danced?  ok its a word for the general dance floor dance 
but i say it is already co opted ...that the non-Nuevo performers have already 
slipped in their palative
covert- performance dance as THE authentic one..calling it SALON...it is NOT the 
Social dance...
I want to champion the SOCIAL DANCE as it is danced socially...no one seems to 
be interested in this.
 I was just talking the other day to the wife of Ricardo Bellozo (of AbreTango) 
they are preparing to return
to BsAs instead of continuing to live and teach in Italy because stage tango has 
usurped the interest in the social dance there.  We are witnessing the demise of 
the social dance everywhere except in BsAs....so far.
sincerely  M..

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"The music makes you dance. It is so simple when one gets it. Connect with my 
partner and then connect with the music, let the music tell me how to move my 
body rather than me tell my body how to move to the music. With the right music 
and right partner, I am contented to have just one tanda a night" -Pedro Sanchez