Re: [Tango-L] Better? Worse? Just different.

2011-04-20 Thread Jack Dylan
I don't understand why there should be any confusion over this. Traditional Tango is what is danced predominantly by the Argentines in the traditional milongas of Buenos Aires. It really is that simple. After all, what else can it be? And what you were told is correct; there are no 'wraps' in

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2011-04-20 Thread Brick Robbins
From: Jack Dylan jackdylan...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Better? Worse? Just different. Traditional Tango is what is danced predominantly by the Argentines in the traditional milongas of Buenos Aires. It really is that simple.?After all, what else can it be? There are 150 milongas a

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2011-04-20 Thread Anton Stanley
Recent post quote: BTW, are there any videos of you dancing online? Since you are the expert, I would like to watch you dance. Would it be useful to suggest to this list that anyone asking to view a video of a list member dancing, firstly submit a video of themselves dancing. Anton

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2011-04-20 Thread hbboogie1
Good idea Anton I think it would be fun to post a personal video I’ll be the first. This was taken after our anniversary party last year. regards, David http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIsEWqhZc74feature=related -Original Message- From: Anton Stanley an...@alidas.com.au To: Tango-L

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2011-04-20 Thread Trini y Sean (PATangoS)
--- On Wed, 4/20/11, Brick Robbins br...@brickrobbins.com wrote: From: Jack Dylan jackdylan...@yahoo.com And what you were told is correct; there are no 'wraps' in Traditional Tango. So anyone who dances  wraps in their tango, no matter the shape of the embrace, is not dancing traditional

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2011-04-20 Thread jan bares
    Trini wrote: ”Close-embrace tango is not going to go out of style, as long as there are people who enjoy being held by other people.” By far the best pronouncement about the tango future I read on this list in years!     The “classic tango”? Feels a little too exalted for what was a dance of

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2011-04-20 Thread Tango22
Keeping Tango bands alive is very difficult, because there is insufficient money in it for struggling musicians. When one member leaves a band, the growth in repertoire stops until the new member is up to speed, so it's vey hard to develop a good dance repertoire. Getting sufficient gigs to