[Tango-L] proportions

[Gordon Erlebacher]

I completely agree Sherrie. When I DJ, admittedly in a town with few serious dancers, I keep my tandas below 10 min, usually 9 or 9 1/2, and that means three tangos per tanda. Never four. My reasoning: exactly what you said: give people the opportunity to dance with more partners. 

   Gordon


----- Original Message -----
From: sherpal1 at aol.com
Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 10:31 pm
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] proportions
To: TANGO-L at mit.edu

> this youtube  is very beautiful..but where is the link between the 
> dancer and the DJ?
> 
> Someone else brought up another very good point, that there are 
> maybe 
> 4, 5 or even 6 tangos per tanda in Ba..IMO this is a dance 
> disaster...one of these tandas can last as long as 15 minutes..too 
> long 
> to take a chance on dancing with an "unknown entitiy" whether it be 
> male or female...this is a tango tanda lifetime, and unless you are 
> very young or have high pain thresholds, this can be a physical 
> dance 
> nightmare.    In milongas where this is the MO, I usually opt out 
> of 
> the first or second song, and only dance 2 or 3 after that unless I 
> am 
> absolutely sure of the dancer's skills...I don't know why the DJ's 
> are 
> doing this...it leads to fewer tandas per milonga and fewer partner 
> changes and longer periods of sitting out if you have not been 
> cabaceod 
> for that tanda...very bad dance strategy..sometimes I want to go to 
> sleep and leave early in order not to suffer these long dance 
> intermissions...  this dance model is worthy of scrutiny, analysis 
> and 
> change.....sherrie
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dubravko Kakarigi <dubravko_2005 at yahoo.com>
> To: TANGO-L at mit.edu
> Sent: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 8:27 pm
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] proportions
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: "sherpal1 at aol.com" <sherpal1 at aol.com>
> ...
> > I don't think I have ever seen a DJ in BA dance....It is sort of 
> like 
> a
> 
> Oh, but they do indeed dance -- not every one of them, but many do.
> 
> See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQtItjJyMfU, for example.
> 
> ...dubravko ===================================
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