[Tango-L] [SA] RE: San Diego close embrace Festival 2010

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

--- On Wed, 1/6/10, Meister Richard Köhnlein (www.der-schnelle-shop.de) 
> ***The San Diego Tango Festival will be a Southern
> California treat 
> for all tango dancers who love the social tango popular in
> the 
> milongas of Buenos Aires: close, subtle & romantic.
> ***


Perhaps the emphasis on close embrace has been dropped because the organizers have realized that it just won't work in San Diego.  We also have to talk about branding.  The San Diego festival is a sister festival of the Denver Festival, which is known as a close-embrace festival.  The photos for the San Diego festival feature 2 tango teachers/dj's (Robert Hauk and Avik Basu) whose preference for close-embrace dancing is widely known.  It would normal for someone to see that promotion and expect it to be close-embrace.  An outside organizer would have a tough time keeping things close-embrace if that community (and their teachers) don't keep with the spirit of the event.

Trini de Pittsburgh