Thanks for the comments on tandas. I don't find them surprising.
Huck, I totally agree that we dont cater to beginners, that we generally
hold the codigos more important than any compromise. As you said, our
approach is to favor those with (ten) years of experience.
As far as asking
This may be of interest. I recently attended two milongas in Buenos Aires with
Los Reyes del Tango playing live - not the whole evening but they played for
about two hours in total (it was great, by the way - their live performance is
much, much better than their CDs). And while they played,
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:24:19 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
BTW, Los Reyes played just one milonga in the whole set, from what I can
remember.
My kind of musicians. :-)
Floyd
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There was a time, very early in tango history (1880 - 1920) when tango was
danced in pirigundines also called academias. These places were situated
in the periphery of the city and required special permits from the City hall to
function. Pirigundines continued to function till not too long
This is very interesting and finally tandas make sense.
We of course had taxi dancers and taxi dance halls here in the US from
the 20's to the 50's -- but the men got only one dance per ticket.
Sergio Vandekier wrote:
There was a time, very early in tango history (1880 - 1920) when tango was
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Personally, I've always been a little ambivalent on the tanda structure and
am probably even more so now, understanding that it is actually an
anachronism.
The tanda structure is not an anachronism. Like other Argentine
codigos, it evolved over
I couldn't find this discussed in the archives and am very curious:
Back in the golden age, when you danced the entire night to one Orquesta
Tipica, did they play 3 or 4 songs and then some rock 'n roll (or whatever)??
What was a night of tango like back then?? Where did the tanda system as
If the couple is new, and I'll assume so for the purposes of Tango
etiquette described below..., the lady looks around the room for a
leader she would like to dance with... If a leader sees a lady
looking his way, and he would like to ask her to dance, they do a
cabaceo... He nods his head
I don't think you answered David's question. . .
What you describe (quite nicely) is how the tanda system works now. But I
believe the question was: what about in the beginning, when they presumably
didn't have Biagi and DiSarli and who-knows-what-else all in one night, but
rather had just one
Yes... It looks like I misread that he didn't understand them at all
'now' as well..
But I did read Golden Age..., roughly from the mid 30's through to the
mid 50's. And both DiSarli and Biagi as well as DiArenzo, Canaro, et
al, were playing live and of course making recordings too at
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