[Tango-L] The Basic Elements of Tango

[Vince Bagusauskas]

It was said thus in relation to Chicago Tango Week:

"The obsessive attention paid to movement possibilities in tango workshops
around 
the world is not improving tango dancing. Milonga dance floors have become 
increasingly chaotic. Instead of wasting their money supporting instructors
and 
festival organizers who are misrepresenting tango, tangueros should travel
to 
Buenos Aires regularly and observe how the masters of tango social dancing,
the 
milongueros, dance tango in the cultural environment where tango social
dancing 
has evolved and still thrives today."


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If you look at their website, which is atrociously slow to load, you will
see that Narcotango is the featured band.

http://chicagotangoweek.org/

Does this not suggest to you that the festival is Nuevo orientated?  If so,
I do not have a problem with the descriptions, as I would expect to have
lots of people coming to the festival labelling themselves higher than their
true abilities whatever their preference is, and thus expect many crap
dancers going. 

Would that stop me?  Probably not, but if it I was expecting to dance the
way they dance in BsAs and travel there often, maybe it would.

Vince
In Melbourne