[Tango-L] The Basic Elements of Tango

Michael tangomaniac at cavtel.net
Thu Jul 8 18:11:15 EDT 2010


Vince:
I have yet to go to a milonga in the States that's like a milonga in Buenos 
Aires.  Single women and men aren't separated and cabeceo isn't used because 
the venue is too dark and is more suited for fireworks on the 4th of July.

Michael
I danced Argentine Tango --with the Argentines

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vince Bagusauskas" <vytis at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] The Basic Elements of Tango


> It was said thus in relation to Chicago Tango Week:
>
> If you look at their website, which is atrociously slow to load, you will 
> see that Narcotango is the featured band.
>
>  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
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