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

[Anton Stanley]

Commenting on the below post, I would love to dance to and support live
tango bands playing what I perceive to be excellent tango music, comparable
to the great orchestras of the past. Orchestras which gained greatness
through rising to the top of their profession. Often competing for the
privilege from amongst 200 or more orchestras. Seems to me a little
presumptuous to offer oneself as a worthy substitute, simply on the basis of
being the only orchestra or one of very few in the city. Maybe if all it
entailed was creating a steady, recognisable rhythm aca swing or salsa, I'd
be foot-tapping like an enraptured trooper. Unfortunately, my perception of
live tango bands/orchestras, has been that they largely play for their own
entertainment and not for the tango dancers. Yes I have experienced
exceptions, foremost of which I place groups formed around Joaquin Amenabar,
to which I would willing dance every day and pay all I could afford for the
pleasure. If I am living in a "vacuum of the orginal artists", it's because
there's a vacuum of tango artists today. Like everyone, I encourage by
applauding any live tango orchestra when they play at a milonga. But mostly
it's simple encouragement.

Just my opinion
Anton

"Swing dancers don't have the same issues because, they
continuously support and welcome live music. They don't treat the music as
only living in a vacuum of the original artists. They do in fact straddle
between the old and the new. They also take the opportunity live music
allows to challenge them as dancers by requiring spontaneity. Maybe it's
because, I  play live music but, I just don't see why this aspect is largely
and sadly ignored."