[Tango-L] The spread of tango

[Valentin TIEDE]

To the mail from Bristol (below) :
Probably the Ballroom and Argentine tango were the same somewhere in Europe, but not everywhere (see "Why the English fail at tango" - an opinion of a British (!) lady from 1925 in "http://jantango.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/why-the-english-fail-at-tango/"). 
And they certainly were not at all the same in the area of Rio de la Plata where (I guess) in the Golden Age they even didn't know what a Ballroom Tango is. 
But probably some experts know the name of a porteño who won a championship in ballroom tango somewhere in the north of the equator

Best regards
Valentin



> Message du 09/06/11 10:28
> De : "johnofbristol at tiscali.co.uk"
> A : "Alexis Cousein" , "Tango-L"
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> Objet : Re: [Tango-L] The spread of tango
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> Yes I see what you mean, but my understanding is that Ballroom and
> Argentine tango were the same thing a century ago, and have developed
> in different directions.
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> John Ward
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> From: "Alexis Cousein"
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> To: "Tango-L"
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] The spread of tango
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> > On 08/06/2011 13:06, johnofbristol at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
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> >> According to P.J.S. Richardson (History of English Ballroom
> Dancing,
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> >> 1945),
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> > Uhm - I think that given the list audience, people were looking
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> > for information on the spread of *Argentine* tango, not ballroom
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> > tango.
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