[Tango-L] Tango Meccas (WAS Re: Seminar review)

[Michael]

I'm emboldened to add based on Shahrukh's message. It's a very strong
statement to call Boulder a mecca just because of one couple. Suppose you
don't like the couple's style of dancing or teaching? There's also the issue
of convenience of getting there.

I'm quite happy to move to New York's tango community even *if it's not a
mecca.*
**
Michael
Moving to New York where arranging delivery is more difficult than learning
tango

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Shahrukh Merchant <
shahrukh at shahrukhmerchant.com> wrote:

> "Nussbaum, Martin" <mnussbau at law.nyc.gov> wrote, about a week ago:
>
> > Boulder is now the go-to mecca for Tango, second only to
> > Buenos Aires.
>
> Wow, that's quite a statement. Certainly it cannot be denied that
> Gustavo & Giselle's setting up home in Boulder makes Boulder somewhat
> special in the Tango department.
>
> However, let me play devil's advocate (no cynicism intended) and ask,
> since really what to me defines Tango in Buenos Aires is not the dance
> as much as it is the music: What's going on in Boulder, if anything, in
> the Tango music department? Does it have a resident Tango orchestra? Or
> at least aspiring Tango musicians? Does the Tango energy of Boulder
> foment it? Would a Tango concert (no dancing) of good, but not
> particularly danceable, Tango music, fill a theatre of 500? Of 100?
>
> Shahrukh
>