[Tango-L] Social vs Anti-Social Tango. Was Navigation

[barbara]

I (as you know, NOT a nuevo enthusiast) have seen Homer Ladas dance very 
simply and nicely on the smallest floor in San Franciso on a number of 
occasions and with various partners. It takes experience and skill to 
adapt from nuevo to social dancing, but mainly the right attitude . . .
Barbara


On 17/01/2011 01:19 p.m., Sandhill Crane wrote:
> --- On Sat, 1/15/11, Brick Robbins<brick at brickrobbins.com>  wrote:
>
>> I have been egregiously run into many times by "Susana-Miller-trained
>> square-close-embrace-only, downtown-milonguero-style,
>> anything-else-is-not-tango" anti-social leaders who loudly and often
>> complain about "nuevo dancers."
>>
>> I have had many very comfortable tandas dancing near "open embrace
>> nuevo" social leaders, who transition to something more compact as the
>> floor gets crowded.
> Hmm, where are you dancing, by the way? I see (in western
> North America) something rather different ... the self-
> proclaimed milonguero types are at least well-behaved
> (whatever you might think about their devotion to the one
> true tango). The well-behaved tango nuevo enthusiast, on
> the other hand, is almost a theoretical construct. Yes,
> they could modify what they're doing to accommodate others.
> But they just don't bother. Why should they? Their partners
> and their friends don't care, the organizers say nothing,
> and the only people who complain are idiots like me who
> count for nothing.
>
> Aside from people from identifiable camps, I'm leaving out
> the ones who are either inexperienced or perennially clueless;
> not much to say about that in either case.
>
>> I think it has a lot more to do with attitude and respect
>> than the shape of the embrace.
> Agreed.
>
>> "Can't we just all get along"
> Well, I'm reserving my judgement about that.
> I try to be considerate, but we can get along only to
> the extent that others are willing to return the favor.
>
>
>
>
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