[Tango-L] Why are you dancing tango if you don't like tango?

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You fell in love with everything tango and for  the last twenty years it 
has been your life until one day you read this  sarcastic post on Tango L and 
hung yourself with the laces of your tango  shoes.
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In a message dated 5/3/2010 5:23:16  P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
ming_mar at yahoo.com writes:
You were dancing  ballroom when you saw an Argentine tango demo and you 
thought 
that Argentine  tango was much more spectacular.  And then you made friends 
in 
the  tango crowd.

Twenty years ago you saw the show Tango Argentino in San  Francisco and 
swore to 
yourself that you'd learn how to do that.  And  then you made friends in 
the 
tango crowd.

One night you were walking  home when you looked through a storefront 
window and 
saw a tango  class.  You thought it looked like fun.  Since it was in your  
neighborhood you took classes, and then you made friends in the tango  
crowd.

Your mother is Argentine and to make you more aware of your  heritage she 
made 
you take tango lessons even though she doesn't dance it  herself.  And then 
you 
made friends in the tango crowd.

You  actually prefer salsa, but you hate bars.

You actually prefer salsa, and  you like bars, but you're a woman and not 
as 
young as you used to be.   The salseros have been inviting you less and 
less.

You actually prefer  country-western two-step, but the only bar that 
offered it 
closed, so you  switched to tango.

You used to work for an Arthur Murray franchise where  you learned a bunch 
of 
different dances.  You actually find the  country-western crowd friendlier 
than 
the tango crowd but you moved to a  region that doesn't have much of a 
country-
western scene.

You  actually prefer ballroom.  In the old country everybody young and old  
danced 
ballroom.  But here, the ballroomers are so *old*.

You  were a Piazzolla fan and then you found out there was a dance called  
"Argentine tango."  So, you decided to check out this dance.

You  were new in town and figured that a good way to meet a woman was to 
learn to  
dance.  You didn't have a preference so you started at "A," Argentine  
tango.  
Then you hooked up with a tanguera fanatic and found yourself  making the 
pilgrimage to Buenos Aires.

Your wife drags you to  tango.  She's much better than you.  She spends 
most of 
her time  dancing close-embrace with advance dancers.  You spend most of 
your  
time dancing open-embrace with beginners.

I think that most people  who stay with tango dance do so for social and 
not 
musical reasons.  If  you like the people at the milonga but not the music, 
you 
can always stay  and bitch about the music.  If you dislike the people at 
the 
milonga,  you're going to leave even if you love the  music.



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