[Tango-L] Tango marathons

[rcgimmi@aol.com]

Yes, it's interesting, isn't it?  I've spent quite a bit of time in both countries and tango seems to have waxed and waned in both of them.  In the 1950's and 1960's, tango in Argentina seems to have been in decline in Argentina; but, this same is the rising "golden age" of tango in Finland.

I met some young Portenas at our tango festival in 2004.  I am guessing they grew up in the 1980s.  None of them knew how to tango.  "That's old people's stuff."  They were only there to listen to the music.

Today, (IMHO) tango in Argentina is gaining in popularity while it is fading in Finland.  But, that's nice, isn't it?  The tango stars are always bright in one hemisphere or the other.

I think much of the slow decline in tango's popularity in Finland is attributable to the passing of Finland's "war generation."

R






-----Original Message-----
From: Trini y Sean (PATangoS) <patangos at yahoo.com>
To: Tango-L <Tango-L at mit.edu>
Sent: Tue, Jul 20, 2010 1:53 pm
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Tango marathons


I met someone (under 30) the other night from Finland, who was a friend of a 
anguera.  We naturally tried to coax her into learning Argentine tango, but she 
efused because in Finland, tango was for "old people".  Even though she knew 
here was a difference with Argentine tango (and our community has a lot of 
oung people that she met), her mind was set.  I'm guessing that means that as 
t used to be in Argentine tango, young people are not interested in learning 
innish tango.
Trini de Pittsburgh
--- On Tue, 7/20/10, johnofbristol at tiscali.co.uk <johnofbristol at tiscali.co.uk> 
rote:
Looks like somebody has beaten me to publishing a link to my footage of 
 Finnish tango competition. My blog is here: http://finnishtango.
logspot.com  which will tell you possibly more than you want to know.

      
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