Ming Mar asked:
>I have a question for people who also do other dances: Are
>the non-tango people nicer than tango people?
In a short word: Yes.
Longer explanation:
First off, I am a formally trained ballroom teacher who doesn't teach
or dance ballroom much since I drank the Tango Kool-Aid.
In
meaning of life wrote:
>here were the responses, in no particular order:
>
>1) icky music
>2) boring
>3) don't like to dance with people i don't know or don't
>like
>4) stinky old men
I thought that the same criticisms could be laid against
ballroom, but meaning of life emailed me to say that hi
meaning of life writes:
>i believe that somewhere in these responses are the answers to many of the
>questions that have been asked in the past ie: why no men? retention? no
>young dancers?
Tango doesn't appeal to everybody. If you want young men you can get them.
You need to know where to loo
Getting more men in tango IMO is a numbers game. Yes, there are a lot of things
that can be done to keep them once they're there, but most of those things
require a group effort and sometimes a change of mindset, things that are
difficult to implement. I suggest a more immediately productive th
Gordon Erlebacher wrote:
What is the difference, in your mind, between a practica and a Milonga?
I read recently "In theory, there is no difference between theory and
practice. In practice, there is."
To me, in theory, a milonga should be an event where people DANCE. They do
things (steps/fig
--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Gordon Erlebacher wrote:
> What constitutes elitism?
Well, having watched various forms of snobbery in action,
I think that the root cause of it is the intensity of
tango, when it works.
>From what I can tell, once people get a feeling for
what tango can be, they want to dan
Hi,
Let us start a new thread.
What constitutes elitism? It is the notion of deciding on the "proper"
way of dancing tango, or else?
Does it relate to policing the Milongas? Does it relate to playing only
one kind of music?
Or is it a "I am a better dancer because I put lots of work into my
ta
Here's a bigger survey that was done in the Portland, Oregon area a couple of
years ago. There were, I recall, almost four hundred responses. It's titled,
"Why I Quit Tango":
http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=jgRE23jZaqJkQXe_2fRgco1GgAZSrPouqVp_2b1F2ZxnZVk_3d
(If the link doesn't work
On 2/2/11 9:30 PM, Michael wrote:
> Dear Tangonista:
> This is useful information. I remember seeing
What is the difference, in your mind, between a practica and a Milonga?
In my view, a practica is much more free-form, with teaching, coaching,
etc. as long as both partners aquiesce. Of course pra
Dear Tangonista:
This is useful information. I remember seeing tango "rules" posted at a
milonga. One of them was follow the line of dance. (Lewis and Clark found a
path to the Northwest but a lot of people can't find the line of dance.)
Perhaps some of the observations could be printed in local
in an effort to build our tango community, we did a small, informal, and
unscientific marketing survey. the sample consisted of young (plus or minus a
bit 17-21), likely dancers (already dancing something for the most part), male
and female. our hope was to figure out why there was a problem "a
11 matches
Mail list logo
