I wouild have to agree with Shahrukh. I must admit, during the year that I spent in BsAs, i only went to Viruta 3-4 times. I never even considered it a milonga, i always used to refer to it a s a night club - a pick up joint that happens to play tango music. abrazos
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Shahrukh Merchant < shahr...@shahrukhmerchant.com> wrote: > ECSEDY ?ron <a...@milonga.hu> says: > > > I see there is still this misconcept about nuevo being irregular, using > > large moves and causing greef to regular dancers. Well that is a > > misconcept fueled by ignorance. Just check out La Viruta any time > > outside the general 'tourist period' and you'll see that while most of > > the people are nuevo dancers, they are pretty much able to navigate > > without problems, collisions in a lot denser crowd than anywhere else on > > the planet. > > La Viruta??!!! Surely you jest. If you want to dispel the myth that > Argentines have this magic "Tango navigation gene" as some (not recent) > posts have suggested, La Viruta is the place to do it: the worst > possible navigators on the planet. Oh, but just for the record, not > because they are doing "nuevo" per se (even though they are mostly young > dancers, largely Argentine) but because they are mostly beginners > dancing the trademark La Viruta style of looking down at their feet > instead of where they are going. In fact I would sometimes mutter, > "Viruteros" when such a couple (at a different milonga) would bump into > me (or into my protectively outstretched arm) after the man took 2 back > steps in a row against line of dance without looking. And I'd generally > get a knowing nod and smile from my partner. > > I stopped going to La Viruta in large part because of this > "bump-a-tanguero" phenomenon (the dancers there are good natured, I will > say, so couples who bump into each other smile rather than glare at each > other), so I don't have recent experience: perhaps all the good > navigators were merely waiting for me to leave before they started going > there? :-) > > Shahrukh > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > Tango-L@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > -- Yours in dance dementia, Niki ( http://tangotrails.blogspot.com ) _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l