In response to my largely rhetorical question between international
interests in Tango vs. local Buenos Aires Tango interests:
Which do you think is more likely to
care about preserving traditions?
Tango22 tang...@gmail.com legitimately pointed out (if I may
paraphrase) that foreign wealth
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:06:49 -0300
From: Shahrukh MerchantSubject:
Re: [Tango-L] Missing Magic
Art and commerce (of art) have always had an uneasy symbiosis, and
Tango is not immune to this. What the recent internationalization
phenomenon has done is upset that balance. International
macfro...@aol.com says:
This nostalgia for what used to be, that life, people, things, milongas
aren't what they once were, is very tango!
Alberto Gesualdi clambat2...@yahoo.com.ar kindly provided the lyrics:
We live in the present .
Our ego clings to the past and our mind tries to hide
--- On Mon, 10/12/09, Keith Elshaw ke...@totango.net wrote:
This thought came up recently:
It's been about 4 years that this kind-of malaise has been
around.
That's a cycle.
Was that the time of the nightclub fire? I've heard it said that that event
really changed the milongas. When
Thanks Cherie, Nancy, Shahrukh, Keith, Nina and others who wrote off list
with comments on this thread.
You've all been around this scene for a long time and have experienced,
more or less what I was getting at.
I want to apologize to anyone for whom my posting seemed like an admonition
to
So, I'm into tango for 20 years. I swear I'm starting to get it! ;-)
At least, I can't help but feeling things are being revealed. That's why
I'm always on my knees ... a lot going on that one such as me might never
get. Important to pay attention. I look up a lot to try to get it.
Chords
Over the last few years, I have been ruminating on these same thoughts and
perceptions.
Periodically, my concern has been quieted when I've had a conversation
about it with dancers in other places ... and they say they having been
feeling the same things.
Whew! It ain't just me.
I like it that
