living and dancing, here, in BA, forlast ten years, haven't noticed that being
any kind of a "thing". In fact, usually, the leaders who do that, aren't from
BA, I find.
Sincerely, db
From: robert-b <missingl...@cloud9.net>
To: tango-l@mit.edu
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Vocals and Dancing
I have read elsewhere that traditional “milongueros” in BsAs would dance only
to instrumental music or, at least, preferred it strongly to vocal music.
However, I have nothing to back that up.
Robert
On Oct 10, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Lois Donnay <don...@donnay.net> wrote:
> I wrote this on a DJ forum recently: "In Buenos Aires, I often ran into
> leaders who would not dance to music with singers. They didn't like to say
> why, but it was a point of principal. Of course, the DJ's there never play
> songs with women singers. I've heard the reason is the singer deserves
> respect, so you shouldn't dance to them (kind of like not dancing to
> Gardel), and also that the way the singer influences the tempo makes the
> dance difficult."
>
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